Strategy for /tmp and /home Partitioning

[Ben Stringer]

On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 22:18 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
> 
> Well, you have a passion for partitions that I do not have.
> Partitions have existence due to two things
> (1) limited addressing ability in the BIOS
> (2) desire to run multiple OS on the same disc

I'd add to that list:

- ease of data backups
- ease of operating system upgrades
- containment of runaway process consuming filesystem resources
- granularity of filesystem integrity checks
- granularity of different raid choices

I still find that creating many partitions (I use 8 plus swap) makes for
easier administration, as long as you plan the partition sizes
carefully.

Cheers, Ben