Paolo Falcone, 2001-Dec-06 02:25 +0800: > > Yes, there are considerable advantages in breaking up your drive into > smaller partitions. One would be relative security of data against > possible file system corruption. Given that the root partition's > filesystem has been corrupted, it is possible to lose all data on > it. By breaking up to partitions, you can minimize data loss (e.g. > if you separate your /home partition from the /, if / gets hit, the > contents of /home are still intact). Another is during filesystem > recovery, it would generally take a shorter time fixing a small > root filesystem as opposed to a very big one.
I agree whole-heartedly > it will be tedious to implement a partition scheme (especially when > you're using a filesystem != ext2/ext3), but it's well worth it. I don't thinks it's tedious at all, but that's fine. :-) > I don't know if I'm right, but I think you'll need the separate > boot partition (/boot i think), if lilo can't load to MBR due to > the 1024th cylinder BIOS limitation. So far, I haven't encountered > this (maybe I've got a good BIOS, or maybe because I use grub as > my bootloader). Anyway, implementing separate partitions is really > good when you're using it in a server environment (a small / around > 60 to 80 MB; a separate,medium sized /usr partition; another separate > /var partition for your logs, mail, http server; a separate, > relatively big /tmp if you're using apps that make heavy use of > temporary file generation like oracle, and a separate, big, > quota-enabled partition for the users in /home may seem a decent > partition scheme for a multiple -user setup). I've been using the following scheme on several different systems: mount size location ------------------------------------------ swap = memory size beginning of drive / 2GB after swap /home remaining after / put lilo in mbr This scheme allows me plenty of space for the system in /, protection of my /home directorys which includes an archive directory for backups and such if I need to rebuild the / system, and finally the ability to use lilo to dual-boot if I decide to do so. Obviously, the swap size will vary depending on your needs. jc -- Jeff Coppock Systems Engineer Diggin' Debian Admin and User
