On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 13:39 -0600, Jan Depner wrote: > 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. > Well it makes sense in the days where you had a busy server with a 9GB disk, where a partition filling up before anyone notices it is a real possibility. With hundreds of gigs of disk on an entry level server these days, it would take real sysadmin incompetence for that to happen. Lee
