On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 11:50, Lee Revell wrote:
> 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.
>
Cool. I didn't know since I quit taking their partition advice when
they started doing it like SunOS (before Solaris) used to do it.
Jan
