On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 09:10:44PM -0500, Robert Nesius wrote: > I'm inclined to not segregate partitions out anymore. The days of systems > crashing when /var is full are pretty much long gone (at least for linux), > and most systems come with good default log rotation schemes set up. > > If I make a partition for a piece of the filesystem big enough to not have > to worry about it, I'm wasting disk. If I make it to small, I'm wishing I > hadn't used partitions. I have yet to build a system with swap and / > partitions and found it to have been a bad decision. I do segregate / + /usr from /var and /tmp because the files contained have different life cycles, and I still try to avoid unnecessary fragmentation of directory contents. These days I'm leaving 8-12G for / (includes /usr), 2-4G for var, 4-8G for swap (and mount /tmp as tmpfs so it only uses swap if needed) and the rest split between /home, /scratch and /whatever-other-project-dir. Cheers, florin -- Beware of software written by optimists! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20120504/f61dc9ee/attachment.pgp>