On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 10:02 PM, Reindl Harald <h.rei...@thelounge.net>wrote:

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> Am 02.04.2013 22:43, schrieb Mateusz Marzantowicz:
> > On 02.04.2013 20:57, Reindl Harald wrote:
> >>
> >> Am 02.04.2013 20:52, schrieb Tom Horsley:
> >>> On Tue, 02 Apr 2013 14:39:06 -0400
> >>> Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> What I need is an example of a simple directory tree with the proper
> >>>> sizes.
> >>> What is wrong with one partition named / on whole disk? Everything
> >>> has room to grow then :-)
> >> it is idiotic in the case of a damaged OS
> >> you have to backup your data before re-isntall
> >>
> >> it is idiotic in case of /boot not seperated for
> >> hwatever FS-changes, not so long ago ext4 was new
> >> and it was no problem to convert the rootfs and
> >> data parttions to ext4 but /boot needed to stay at ext3
> >>
> >> at least you should seperate /boot, sysroot and your data
> >> not only on Linux, on Windows it was also idiotic do save
> >> your data at c:\ and blindl use this often chossed pre-setup
> >> of most vendors
> >
> > It really depends on your use case. It might be idiotic to recommend
> > something to all people without knowing their use case. I agree that for
> > some deployments separate root and data partition is must have but not
> > for all. I have a lot of qemu/kvm images that for simplicity only have
> > two partitions (root and swap) or sometimes root only
>
> if this are only play-around-systems with no data - fine
> from the moment on you have data on your machine it is
> idiotic in ANY usecase to not seperate them from the OS
>
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Hi Bob,

Maybe this will help you to make a right decision:

9.13.5. Recommended Partitioning Scheme
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/18/html/Installation_Guide/s2-diskpartrecommend-x86.html

Regards,
Grzegorz Witkowski
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