pros and cons of separate filesystems

[Florin Andrei]

On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 09:54 -0400, Keith Hunt wrote:

> Are there any compelling reasons to do that anymore or should I just
> make one big partition? I am talking about a couple pretty big SATA
> drives in probably a RAID 1 configuration.

There is no One Answer To Rule Them All.

On my laptop, I just put everything on one big partition. There's no
valid reason to piecemeal it on such a system. It's a laptop
ferkrissake.

Almost the same on my home PC, except on that one I've a separate 200GB
partition that's dedicated for multimedia work (DVD authoring,
sequencing and sampling, etc.), is formatted XFS and mounted on a
special directory.

One of the servers I take care of in my spare time:
- /home on a separate partition, because that machine has more than one
user. Also the IMAP spool for all users is on /home too. So /home is the
"users playground"
- the Squid cache on a separate partition (too many small files, better
keep them separate)
- /var/log on a separate partition (ever-growing files, no need to
interfere with more static filesystems)
- the MySQL database on its own partition (many reasons, you can figure
them out yourself)

Don't make a religion out of it. Just use your common sense.

-- 
Florin Andrei

http://florin.myip.org/