On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 12:02 PM, Jeremiah Bess <[email protected]> wrote: > Ding, plenty of good advice has been given on this thread. Contrary to > popular belief, it's not required to partition everything out like /temp, > /var, and /boot. I have yet to see a benefit of going through that much > work, but to each his own.
As far as I know this was only common when hard drives were smaller. By combining multiple disks into one filesystem you could effectively pretend you have a much larger disk, without the complications of fakeRAID. I've seen it used in Amazon EC2 servers to prevent log files and backups from overwhelming the disk space and preventing products from functioning. As well as that fun situation where tar is backing up the live product and the backups (resulting in backup files that increase in size geometrically). -- Registered Linux Addict #431495 For Faith and Family! | John 3:16! fsdev.net 0x5f3759df.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup
