On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Todd A. Jacobs wrote:
> [...] stick with /, /boot, and /home plus a swap partition. Keeping
> /home seperate lets you reformat without hosing your data.
Sound advice. I didn't think to put /boot on its own partition, but
perhaps for my next install...
I put /usr/local/ on its own partition for the same hoseless reformatting
reason. If you wanted to get creative I guess you could symlink
/usr/local/ to /home/usr.local and get the same advantage with one less
partition...
I also created a separate partition for /var/log and /var/spool so the
system wouldn't get too hosed in the event of a DOS attack on on the mail
spool or system logs (mailbombs, etc).
Plus I had all this disk space to play with. :-)
There is no 'right' answer of course... Back in the days of 200MB disks,
I put / on one drive and /usr on the other, because that was the only way
to get everything to fit!
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