Am Freitag, 23. September 2011 schrieb shawn wilson: > Either way, its been a while since I've seen a unix box fall over > because of a full disc. So, if something fills up, go in, take your > time and figure it out. You might not be able to run some GUI programs > (and some services might act weird - who cares this is a home system) > but you'll have all the time in the world to fix the issue. > > Partitions are great if you need then. Today, I think they are one of > those things that, unless you can point to the use case you have, you > don't need them.
At work and for customers we have a lot of servers and VMs. Often with just one partition for / and for swap. I do not remember having had a problem with any of these. But I do remember problems with a customer machine that hat everything including /usr on a different partition, *without* LVM and then due to ill- estimation one partition was to small for a task to accomplish. So the seperating of partitions introduced a problem where everything on / would just have worked. So I strongly recommend to use LVM when seperating out things to partitions. Cause Linux machine do not always stick to initial estimations even if they are good ones according to the workload. And then when you are interested in high uptimes and service availibility: Use Nagios or something else to monitor free disk spaces centrally. Cause what use is a still working Linux box when the service that runs on it ran out of free space? Especially when its a mail service not being able to receive new mails anymore. So I think there is no golden rule, but more a set of best practices to follow. And then the separate partitioning isn´t that important anymore. It might still be wise for servers which are at risk to be targers of denial of service attacks or users storing large files in /tmp and whatnot. For users quota might come in handy then. Ciao, -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201109231939.42960.mar...@lichtvoll.de
