How to get the most out of HD space.

[Aldo Foot]

On 9/27/07, Michael Fleming <mfleming at enlartenment.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 06:25:53PM -0500, Michael P Angell waffled thusly:
> >
> >
> >  Pretty much a partitioning question. 2 or 6 partitions? Usage and or
> > benefit of higher lower number of partitions? Didn't Red Hat install
> > multiply partitions in earlier versions?
>
> Each partition will consume a small amount of space in simple overhead
> (Reserved blocks etc) so if you want to get the absolute max out of your
> drive, then fewer partitions the better.
>
> That being said, there's wisdom in using separate partitions for /boot,
> /home and / (root) - this makes disaster recovery easier (short of
> catastrophic hardware failure you won't lose it all) and a discrete /home
> makes it easier to migrate / export it to other machines.
>
> Depending on usage you can vary this (I often have /var/spool for servers
> etc.)
>
> - Michael Fleming.
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I've always wondered about having separate / and /boot.
After all one cannot function without the other.

~Aldo.
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