On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 14:27 -0600, Jan Depner wrote: > I tend to dislike partitioning into a bunch of small pieces like Red Hat > defaults to. The reason being that you will eventually run out of space > in /tmp or /home or /usr or wherever you don't think you're going to run > out of space (see Murphy's law). For our systems at work (and my home > systems) I usually partition the main drive as follows: Since around RH9 or FC1, Red Hat does not do this anymore. By default you get one huge root partition. Really, partitioning up a single disk for /home and /var and /usr stopped making sense when disks got really huge a few years ago. Lee
