Re: RH 3.8 only one partition

On 20 Sep, 16:28, Scott Hemphill <hemph...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
ton de w <ton_de_win...@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:





On 19 Sep, 15:11, Kent Jones <Stufffit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello,

Have recently been handed a few PCs each with a 72 GB scsi disk
running RH 3.8 ES.
And exactly one partition.
I was expecting / and /boot at a minimum.
Is having just one partition OK? I suppose it does reduce the chance
of running out of space in a partition - currently only 8 -10 GBs are
used but there must be a downside(?).

The downside is that the /boot partition normally is not written to
(except when particular files are updated usually during an OS
upgrade).

This minimizes the chance of a system crash or partition problem
destroying critical files.

TIA

Ton

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Got that - well I understand the point about /boot .
And I half-understand the point about the /home.
If I am updating the OS dont I just boot up off CD and apply them -
which would leave /home as is?
Or is the point that if /home was on different file sys it would be
unmounted?
Actually I guess the same applies to /opt where there are loadsa
things that need protecting/backing up...

People used to be concerned about /boot because they wanted to ensure
that they could boot their system to give them a chance of recovering
in the event of filesystem corruption. Nowadays, you just boot off of
a Live CD and you have all the tools you need to effect a recovery.
It used to be that power failure or powering off the machine without
unmounting was the main cause of corruption. Nowadays, journaling
file systems make corruption a rarity. In the event of a disk
failure, the main thing you want to do is to get any data off the disk
that hasn't already been backed up. You can boot off of a Live CD for
this task, also.

The point about /home is a good one (and I think you got it). If you
are installing a whole new operating system, you don't want to wipe
out your personal files. (The same goes for any separately installed
applications in /opt or /usr/local.) You don't need a separate
partition for /home in two cases: your /home actually lives on a file
server, or you plan to restore your /home from a convenient, reliable
backup.

Scott
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Thank you both for elucidating- very educational.

I kindof like the idea of 2 X 8 GB partitions for current root and
future root...


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