On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 02:27:58PM -0600, Michael Burns wrote: > ON Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 11:59:35AM -0600, Phil Mendelsohn wrote: > > I'm doing some shuffling of some systems, and I've got a question. > > I know *HOW* to partition drives, but frankly I'm finding partitions > > to be more of an asset than a liability. > > > > The reasons I have so far that justify creating a partition are: > > > > 1 Boot partitions (multiple OSs, or in the case of Alpha, some > > need to see a FAT partition with certain BIOS/bootloader > > combinations. > > > > 2 Need for multiple fs. If you *need* a disk of fs <x>, sure. > > > > 3 Simple "hardware quotas". > > 4. Different mount options, such as read-only > 5. Different filesystem parameters > 6. (/ only) Consistency and speed of recovery in the event of a crash. 7. Different usage patterns: for instance I have a /var/cache partition that holds my apache mod_proxy cache directory and the mailing lists for tclug, lkml... When mutt enters a directory it has to "stat" all the files and fetch the headers in order to build the index. I don't want that spread all over the disk, interspersed with /use files. 8. Backup: my biggest backup device atm is a CD-ROM - and that limits the size of a bzipped dump file. Indeed, partitioning is a little of black art... it depends on your distro, usage patterns... etc. It is refined over time and succesive installations. But that doesn't make it useless. Cheers, florin -- "If it's not broken, let's fix it till it is." 41A9 2BDE 8E11 F1C5 87A6 03EE 34B3 E075 3B90 DFE4 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020112/5b38bb37/attachment.pgp