Re: Fewer partitions are better (Re: Disk Layout/Partitioning Practices)

From: Bevan C. Bennett (bevan_at_fulcrummicro.com)
Date: 01/29/04

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Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 09:52:22 -0800

    dballester@kernpharma.com wrote:
    > Hi Paul:
    >
    > What do you understand for 'rebuild' a system? Do you mean backup
    > data, rebuild partitions and restore data? Fresh install? Rebuild using
    > same system moving partitions while is up&running?

    If your user data is on a separate partition, it makes it -much- easier
    to perform a clean install (either of the current or a new OS version)
    on the 'os' partitions without worrying about the integrity of your user
    data safe on it's own partition.

    A long time ago I used to install Suns with a reasonably complex
    arrangement of partitions (separate /var to prevent logs from filling up
    / and crashing the system, separate /usr mounted ro for extra security
    against hackers, separate /tmp (pre tmpfs), ...) but it seems to me now
    that the more complex your partitioning, the more likely they are to
    give you trouble.

    For example, when sun and their sw vendors started providing software
    that installs in /opt (which was part of /) it caused a big hassle (/
    didn't have room for giant software packages, /usr did!) involving
    convincing various installation tools to ignore that it's installation
    directories were now symlinks. Also, in general, the more you break up
    your filesystem, the more likely you are to have plenty of free space on
    one partition when another fills up unexpectedly.

    Now I use just /, /usr/data and /boot (and swap) and life has generally
    been easier. 

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