John Oliver wrote:
A single / even including /var?
Yes. Given that it's all going to one virtual disk, there is no point in multiple partitioning unless you have very specific reasons.
One consideration I had with the VM was to make a default image of maybe 4GB, and to be able to copy it, increase the size of the disk, and resize or create partitions to be able to use it. If I just create one big / then it would be pretty tough to just resize my filesystem... I'd probably have to do a lot of dd'ing between partitions or virtual disks, in which case I might as well just create a new VM and install.
I'm pretty sure that VMWare server has utilities to do this. The utilities understand the filesystem, so they compact the filesystem and then do an expansion.
I don't know the details (never having done it), but I have seen lots of posts on the VMWare discussion boards about expanding disks after initial install.
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