[RndTbl] Partitioning in Linux

[Mike Pfaiffer]

On 11-07-11 03:59 PM, Trevor Cordes wrote:
> On 2011-06-08 Kevin McGregor wrote:
>> Is that optimal? Recommended? Some would say that /home, /tmp, /var
>> and others should reside in separate partitions/filesystems.
>> Discuss. :-)
>
> Better late than never...
>
> I've recently come to the conclusion that for most stuff I do, skip
> LVM.  LVM was great when resize2fs and gparted didn't exist.  But with
> those tools now being so advanced, everything I cared to use LVM for is
> now handled in a much simpler way.
>
> If you use LVM and still want to do resize type things in a way that
> LVM can't do (ran into this recently) then it's a major pain to work
> around LVM to use simple resize2fs commands.
>
> That said, I still use the boot/root/swap 3 partition setup, as Fedora
> still likes it that way.  Maybe separate boot isn't required anymore,
> but if it ain't broke, why fix it?
>
> On my personal systems I do some other wacky stuff for performance
> reasons (splitting things on different disks for parallelism).  So no
> harm to having separate /tmp or /var/spool/squid if disks permit.
>
> If it's a system I care about, I'll do md RAID[16].  If it's a less
> important system (living room mythtv comp) then I'll just do 1 disk.
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	I know I responded to this earlier too...

	At the lab where I volunteer the balance is to consider both the 
assembly line nature of the work as well as the need for the user (as 
you saw last year - thanks again BTW).

	In a concession to the assembly line part we want to keep things 
simple. We'd rather not have to recover an entire disk if all we have to 
do is recover a partition. Since reinstalling the programs is fairly 
trivial if we decide to do a clean install, we can separate out the "/" 
directory from the user data.

	If the users decide to experiment with upgrades (we don't really care) 
it is easy to retain their data and settings if the "/home" area is in 
its own partition. There have been instances on various M$ machines we 
give out where the clients family or friends messed up the system. By 
giving them separate unprivileged accounts the likelihood of this in a 
*NIX environment is less.

	We still put on a swap partition just because...

	Nice and simple. Quick to maintain. The only problems we've had is when 
some MTS tech will tell the client Linux (or OS X) doesn't work on the 
MTS system. Actually we had one guy exchange his system for an M$ system 
because a couple of gambling sites wouldn't let *NIX systems connect.

				Later
				Mike