-----Original Message-----
From: dballester(a)kernpharma.com [mailto:dballester@kernpharma.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 5:25 PM
To: fedora-list(a)redhat.com
Subject: Re: Fewer partitions are better (Re: Disk Layout/Partitioning
Practices)
Hi:
I understand your point of view but I disagree with
you. I'm sysadmin
and I NEED to have system data and user data in three or more physical
partitions ( at least /boot, / and /where_user-app_data_is ).
The reason is
disponibility. I'm totaly agree with LVM and RAM reasons that
you exposed
but having all data in / is dangerous.
Think about a damaged filesystem. In parititioned
systems, if the
damaged filesystem is user data or /boot, I can unmount it
easily, repair
it, and mount it again. If all system except /boot are in /, I need to
shutdown the machine, startup in 'recovery mode', repair and
start machine.
In this machine, for example we can have, internal dns,
dhcp server,
cups ( printing ) and samba server. Using different
partitions, samba user
data can be unmounted, and printig, dns and dhcp will not be
affected. With
only / I can have all people in company stopped for a while.
In the other hand, if the computer is for personal use,
It's logical
to have all in /, no problem :)
This makes perfect sense to me.. If one fs/partition gets curruppted,
they don't take down the whole disk..
BY far the best explanation I've read.
Cool.