Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2021-12-10, Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 09/12/2021 21:27, p...@xvalheru.org wrote: >>> I'm planning small /boot partition, / partition and /data (including >>> home) partition. >> I just use one partition. What's the point of having multiple ones if >> they're all on the same storage device? > I find it easier to re-install if home and data directories are on a > different filesystem than the system stuff. > > -- > Grant > > >
Plus if you use LVM or some other similar software, you can expand as needed. I have /boot and / on regular file systems for simple booting. I have /usr and /var on their own partition. Obviously /home is on it's own and on multiple hard drives at that. Since I did my install on this rig, I've had to expand /usr at least twice, maybe three times. I've also had to expand /var as well. If one doesn't use LVM or similar, then you have to redo pretty much everything or reinstall. I've done that in the past and I learned to use LVM. One day, I may switch to BTFS, sp?, or similar. That said, LVM works fine for me at the moment. As I mentioned in a previous post, I've had a log file go crazy and fill up /var. My system continued to run just fine. However, if it was on the same file system as / is on, that could have created problems. Could even cause a crash and may not even reboot normally either. Just depends on what must store things there I guess. Just thoughts. Each has to do things to suit their situation. Dale :-) :-)
