Re: hard drive configuration
On 6/10/2011 2:11 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 21:49 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>> for single user or
>>
>> /
>> /home
>> /media/big -> /home/$user1/big
>> /media/big -> /home/$user2/big
>
> For a single user I switched from / + /home to / only.
> For special tasks I add e.g. /music_productions to /mnt or /home.
>
> The advantage to have / only, including /home is, that you don't need
> think that much about allocation of free space. You anyway can do
> separated backups. And having tons of individual mounted directories
> won't speed up anything or won't have any other advantage. It might be
> different for servers or what ever, but for a single user?
Always have a /boot partition with kernel file etc so you can still boot
the machine if you roast your / filesystem. Sure, live CDs are handy,
but it's more handy if you can boot to a prompt and troubleshoot without
inserting a CD.
--
Stan
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