jmsmith871 wrote:
> What are you folks' partitioning recommendations?
Partitioning is mostly an issue of usage convenience vs. data backup
convenience. For most workstation setups, you really only need the
basic setup, being /, swap, and /boot. Generally, you want your boot
directory on a separate partition so it doesn't need to be mounted
during normal operation. This is just to help avoid overwriting
something important like the kernel.
For setups where you want to backup data conveniently, or you want to
make sure that your data is separate from your programs in case you have
filesystem corruption problems, it's good to split those directory
heirarchies off into their own partitions. Usually, this is /home and
/var. /home is where all users keep their data, and /var is generally
where servers will store data, like mail, databases, webpages, etc.
Keeping these as separate partitions makes it easier to use tools like
dump or dar to make periodic incremental backups of your data.
There's a very detailed HOWTO on partitioning on www.tldp.org. Some of
that goes into performance issues, which you can probably ignore. There
is good, useful information in there as well.
Chad Martin
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