Re: what to take off the root partition
On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 20:29 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Thursday December 20 2007 15:48:19 Alex Samad wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> >
> > I have allocated 10G to my root partition in an effort to kiss
> > the system.
>
> Kiss the system?????
>
> > So I have farmed of /home and /var/log and I am
> > about to do /usr/local nothing really in here that i really
> > need on the root partition
> >
> > My question is around /usr/share should/could I move this of to
> > another partition ?
> >
> > my rootfs is on a raid1 native (HD ) partition, everything else
> > is on lvm partitions
>
> /home should *always* be on it's own partition. /var/log should
> be on it's own partition if this is a server that does more than
> serve MP3s to the other PCs in your house. Given the size of
> modern disks, I see no reason to move /usr out of the root
> partition.
>
Hey,
kiss = keep it simple, stupid
It's a philosophy whereby complexity for the sake of it is frowned
upon.
cheers,
Owen.
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