[ale] one or many...

[Preston Boyington]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Popovitch [mailto:jimpop at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2003 2:57 PM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] one or many...
> 
> 
> Geoffrey wrote:
> 
> > By making / a separate partition:
> >
> > You protect your / from being filled up by logs or stupid users.  
> > Makes things a bit easier when backing up individual partitions.
> >
> > At least put /var /home on different partitions.
> 
> 
> A couple of extra points...  I will be the only user on this 
> system.   
> It is my laptop, and it won't be running any services (not 
> even sshd).  
> Logging, if any, will be a minimum, so I am not worried about 
> filling up 
> /var/log.   What I am worried about is any filesystem/mount-point 
> overhead, as well as delays associated with moving large files from 
> /home to /opt, or elsewhere.    The arguments for separate 
> filesystems 
> are very strong when building servers and multi-user workstations, I 
> just don't see the same arguments when building laptops for 
> individual use.
> 
> -Jim P.
> 

i run debian on an old Compaq laptop (133mhz,32mb ram) and don't see any
difference in delay time between an "all in one" partition and my seperate
partitions.  i initially set it up with just a /swap, /boot, and "/" and
later did seperate partitions.  again, i experience no noticable slowdown
although YMMV.

i would still suggest seperate partitions for consistancy between machines.
granted "they" won't know it but you will.

preston