On Sat, 18 Sep 2004, William Ballard wrote:
> I know what the reasons are for using seperate partitions,
> but I just can't bother. Linux isn't Unix, it's closer to
> being Windows than it is Unix. It's a crummy desktop O/S on
> commodity Intel whiteboxes.
>
> Just use one big giant / part and back up your data. Who cares
> about system files. Get over yourself :-)
making 1-giant partition makes it look like windoze, and will suffer
from the same fate
use 1 partion for everything if none of the major reasons is important
to your box ...
- single user mode to fix any problem that comes up
- race conditions in /tmp /usr/tmp /var/tmp
- execution of binaries from /tmp
- loading the OS from /boot where /boot is NOT in the first
1024 cylinders
- fast backup of your system
- fast restore of your system
- fast updating of system
- hot swap of a new system to replace the simulated disk failure
- overall reliability
- keep the system files/partitions small for faster
read/writes/seeks
- on...and...on ..
- all of the above will raise itself and be a pain in the butt
when you have to fix things in the middle of your sleep time
- untill than ... its ( proper partitions ) a non-issue
on the other hand ... if you use multiple (too small) partitions
- you'll have major problems with incomplete packages
- systems that prevent you from loggging in
- few other annoyances that is trivial to prevent
making the partitions too big will put you back to the giant partition
problems
- /boot should NOT be a separate partition
- /tmp should ALWAYS be a separate partition
- /home should always be the "rest of the disk"
- /var should be whatever you want for your
mail spool or http logs or and your installed packges and ???
( 1G is plenty for most )
- all user defined changes and installed apps are in /home/...
which typically installs into /usr/local
( move /usr/local to /home/local )
- on and on ...
c ya
alvin
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