Hard disk partitioning is a controversial issue and everyone has their own
ideas.
A good partition can enhance security and reliability at the expense of
maintenance.
So "it depends".
My own system has separate partitions for /home, /tmp, and /boot. This handles
my own particular concerns. I am not concerned with hacking or reliability per
se, but with my users (my family) dropping big files in /tmp and /home (where
they have mounts from Windows boxes). So having these separate partitions
protects my system against that. If I did a lot of development I would have a
/var partition too. If I had bunches of (potentially) hostile users I would
follow other recommendations on partitions too. The downside is that these
different partitions all reduce flexibility and when you run out of space on a
partition and need to increase its size, it is very inconvenient to get around
that. And having every partition with oodles of unused space really wastes
disk space. I have SCSI disks so this is an issue for me. With IDE who cares,
disks are so cheap these days - just get a bigger one.
If you are an institutional user, err on the side of safety. Better to have
less usable disk space than to lose a system. If a personal system, make your
life easy and have the minimum number of partitions to protect you against
reasonably forseeable boo-boos.
NEVER fill up your root disk. This really leaves you in a ditch.
This advice worth what you paid for it :-)
Good luck,
Don
Stephen Liu wrote:
> Hi Bryan,
>
> Thanks for your advice.
>
> One further question
>
> At 10:22 AM 7/25/2002 +1000, Bryan Buchanan wrote:
> >It's exactly the same. If you've partitioned with, say /home, /opt, /u,
> >/data or whatever (as a substitute for D:) on a separate partition, the
> >install process will ask if you want to reformat partitions. Just say
> >'no' to reformatting those where your data is.
>
> I suppose "/home, /opt, /u, /data, etc" in separate partitions, not one
> big partition. If I am wrong please correct me. If in such an arrangement
> some guys on the list may have different opinion in respect of hard disc
> seek time.
>
> I have followed a long thread of argument on partition scheme on another
> list but no final conclusion accepted by most participants was drawn. My
> application is for Terminal Server.
>
> Thanks
>
> Stephen
>
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