[ale] VM guest partitioning practices

[Jim Kinney]

All one flat outside of /boot. As the sizes are tiny in VM use compared to
normal server use, it made sense to go simple. Any needed big partitions
are hosted elsewhere and mounted over the network.
On Dec 9, 2014 11:47 AM, "James Sumners" <james.sumners at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've been asked to research how others layout their filesystems in virtual
> machines. I long ago decided it wasn't worth splitting stuff like /var off
> onto its own partition. I particularly don't think it's necessary in a
> virtual machine. But I need to get some other opinions before I can be
> validated in mine.
>
> So, how do you guys partition the filesystems in your virtual machines?
>
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