Incoming from s. keeling: > Incoming from Derrik Pates: > > sebyte wrote: > > >I have partitioned my hard drive, (using Apple's Disk Utility), as follows: > > > > [snip] > > And since you're installing on a laptop, why are you splitting your main > > filesystem into partitions? Especially "/boot, /tmp, /var, /usr, /home, > > etc." all on one FS? That's a very poor layout, really. Better to just > > go with one FS for your root, one for the exchange partition, one for OS > > This is ridiculous advice and I wish people like you would stop > offering it. Multiple partitions make the system far more robust and
To clarify, /usr, /opt, /var, and /home should be separate, and /var (in Debian) should be big enough to hold logs and a dist-upgrade. /boot and /tmp shouldn't be separate. On that, we can agree. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling - -
