On Wed, 2003-05-07 at 19:47, Matt Darnell wrote: > Aloha, > > When installing RH 8.0 you can have the Disk Druid auto configure the > partitions. It configures so many partitions. Is that a relic to > when hard drives were 6MB and you had to worry about logs filling up > your user space? > > On a Windoze box I do the standard two partitions, one for > applications and logs, they have a relatively fixed size, and another > one for data. > > Is something else I should be thinking about? Two partitions seems > adequate, one swap and one with a / mount point. > > -Matt
I personally think that one swap and one large / partition is good for almost every desktop and server. There are some special cases like wanting to separate a cache partition mounting with noatime and other performance increasing options for squid server, but otherwise separating / into multiple partitions just isn't needed for most people. Warren
