On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 10:02 PM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Am 02.04.2013 22:43, schrieb Mateusz Marzantowicz:
> On 02.04.2013 20:57, Reindl Harald wrote:if this are only play-around-systems with no data - fine
>>
>> Am 02.04.2013 20:52, schrieb Tom Horsley:
>>> On Tue, 02 Apr 2013 14:39:06 -0400
>>> Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:
>>>
>>>> What I need is an example of a simple directory tree with the proper
>>>> sizes.
>>> What is wrong with one partition named / on whole disk? Everything
>>> has room to grow then :-)
>> it is idiotic in the case of a damaged OS
>> you have to backup your data before re-isntall
>>
>> it is idiotic in case of /boot not seperated for
>> hwatever FS-changes, not so long ago ext4 was new
>> and it was no problem to convert the rootfs and
>> data parttions to ext4 but /boot needed to stay at ext3
>>
>> at least you should seperate /boot, sysroot and your data
>> not only on Linux, on Windows it was also idiotic do save
>> your data at c:\ and blindl use this often chossed pre-setup
>> of most vendors
>
> It really depends on your use case. It might be idiotic to recommend
> something to all people without knowing their use case. I agree that for
> some deployments separate root and data partition is must have but not
> for all. I have a lot of qemu/kvm images that for simplicity only have
> two partitions (root and swap) or sometimes root only
from the moment on you have data on your machine it is
idiotic in ANY usecase to not seperate them from the OS
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Maybe this will help you to make a right decision:
9.13.5. Recommended Partitioning Scheme
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/18/html/Installation_Guide/s2-diskpartrecommend-x86.html
Regards,
Grzegorz Witkowski
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