Apparently, though unproven, at 03:44 on Friday 19 November 2010, Walter Dnes did opine thusly:
> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 10:20:52PM -0600, Dale wrote > > > This is mine and it worked when I rebooted a bit ago. > > > > LABEL=boot /boot ext2 noatime 1 2 > > LABEL=root / reiserfs defaults 0 1 > > LABEL=swap none swap sw 0 0 > > LABEL=portage /usr/portage ext3 defaults 0 1 > > LABEL=home /home reiserfs defaults 1 1 > > LABEL=data /data reiserfs defaults 0 1 > > > > I use a variety of file systems don't I? lol I hope that helps. > > I have my own weird setup that optimizes disk usage, without LVM. It > consists of a 256 *MEGA*byte / partition (ext2fs), some swap, and the > rest of the drive is one big reiserfs3 partition mounted as /home. > /opt, /var, /usr/, and /tmp physically reside on the big /home > partition, but are bindmounted into the / partition. > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sda1 1 121601 976760001 5 Extended > /dev/sda5 1 33 265009+ 83 Linux > /dev/sda6 34 1209 9446188+ 82 Linux swap / > Solaris /dev/sda7 1210 121601 967048708+ 83 Linux > > /dev/sda5 / ext2 noatime,nodiratime,async > 0 1 /dev/sda7 /home reiserfs > noatime,nodiratime,async,notail 0 1 /home/bindmounts/opt /opt auto > bind 0 0 /home/bindmounts/var /var > auto bind 0 0 /home/bindmounts/usr /usr > auto bind 0 0 /home/bindmounts/tmp > /tmp auto bind 0 0 /dev/sda6 > none swap sw 0 0 Let me optimize that for you a little bit more: A single 1T reiser3 partition mounted at / This will optimize away the small performance loss introduced by that (empty) / on ext2 Seriously dude, this looks like a dumb scheme that gives you warm and fuzzies but doesn't actually accomplish anything except increased complexity. Feel free to publish verifiable metrics to back up your case. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
