pros and cons of separate filesystems

[Janina Sajka]

Keith Hunt writes:
> I'm looking for a little advice on setting up FC5 on a brand new machine. I
> am pretty sure some of you folks don't mind giving advice...
> 
> I have always configured *nix systems with the standard (well, OK, sort of
> standard) set of separate filesystems, trying to predict how much space I
> will need for each. It usually works out OK albeit with some wasted space
> here and there. Once in a while I have had to repartition things and that is
> obviously a pain.
> 
> Are there any compelling reasons to do that anymore or should I just make
> one big partition? I am talking about a couple pretty big SATA drives in
> probably a RAID 1 configuration.
> 
Anymore I create three partitions, / swap, and /home. The /home persists
across reinstalls of FC, as new releases come out. Any content I want to
keep across installs, e.g. /usr/local, or /var/www/html, I just put
under /home and bind mount to where the OS expects them.

Janina

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> Keith

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