[ale] VM guest partitioning practices

[Lightner, Jeff]

I disagree.   One benefit to having multiple filesystems is you keep people from seeing one huge chunk and deciding it's a great dumping ground.    After more than 20 years of doing this on UNIX and more than 10 on Linux I can count on one hand the number of times I've found issues related to separate filesystems as opposed to the plethora I've seen when it is all on one. 



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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Todor Fassl
Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2014 2:40 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] VM guest partitioning practices

I think creating a seperate partition for /var (at least) is counter productive. If /var fills up, your machine is going to go down because a lot of services will hang if they can't write to the syslog.  Similar logic applies to /usr. I can see having a seperate partion for /home but that is about it.



On 12/09/2014 10:43 AM, James Sumners 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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