Re: hard drive configuration
On Sat, 2011-06-11 at 04:17 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> 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.
Plausible. I've got a multi-boot, so if one Linux fails, I can boot
another to repair it. I don't like to insert a CD either :).
Ralf
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