jam <j...@tigger.ws> writes: > On Friday 30 October 2009 09:00:04 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote: >> > Thanks everyone for the advice. >> > >> > Following the KISS principle I am going to: >> > 1. Live within the RAM can access now (just over 3Gb) >> > 2. Use a single Linux partition (besides boot) on the larger drive >> >> I find it useful putting /home on a separate partition. Then if you >> totally hose your o/s, you can just reinstall and keep all your existing >> data and app preferences (though of course you'll need to reinstall any >> additional apps). > > Totally agree with Sonia about root and home. > and [when] not [if] you hose your install. Upgrades/BadThing Try New Distro > all that sort of stuff. > > Why on earth would you put /boot on a separate partition. That is an artifact > of pre-war motherboards (TheGreatWar).
Actually, there is a second reason for /boot on a separate partition: until very, very, very recently grub1 shipped with most Linux distributions, and it was a fairly stupid bit of software. It could not boot a kernel from anything complex, so any RAID other than strict mirroring, or LVM, meant that the content of /boot was inaccessible to grub, and consequently hard to boot from.[1] Now grub2 is starting to be used more broadly this is slowly changing, but I would still favour the conservative strategy of dropping in a separate partition with a simpler software and file-system stack for /boot. Daniel Footnotes: [1] Some distributions just refused, others deployed lilo instead, with all the pain that implies when something in the boot area changed. -- ✣ Daniel Pittman ✉ dan...@rimspace.net ☎ +61 401 155 707 ♽ made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons Looking for work? Love Perl? In Melbourne, Australia? We are hiring. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html