thib put forth on 2/27/2010 8:18 PM: > Hello, > > Usually I never ask myself whether I should organize my disks into > separate filesystems or not. I just think "how?" and I go with a cool > layout without thinking back - LVM lets us correct them easily anyway. > I should even say that I believed a single root filesystem on a system > was "a first sign" (you know what I mean ;-).
<snippage^10> All of that talk and gyration over a workstation disk layout? You never did mention what the primary application usage is on this machine, which should be a factor in how you set it up. If you're an email warrior, what damn difference does it make, and why bother with LVM on a workstation? What size is the new disk? Here's a safe bet, even with grub(2): swap 4GB may never need it, but u have plenty of disk /boot 100MB ext2 safe call, even if grub(2) doesn't need a /boot / 40GB ext2/3 journal may eliminate mandatory check interval /var up2u ext2 sequential write/read, journal unnecessary /home up2u xfs best performance for all file sizes and counts *You may trust ext4 at this point, but I, and many others don't. xfs beats ext4 in every category, so why bother with ext4? If you have a 500GB, 750GB, 1TB, 1.5TB, 2TB disk, leave the freak'n bulk of it unallocated until you actually need it. This rule alone eliminates much of the vacillation you are currently experiencing WRT "Omg what am I ever going to do with all this disk?!" -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4b8a3566.9060...@hardwarefreak.com
