splitting off directories

[Aaron Konstam]

On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 22:05 -0400, Michael Klinosky wrote:
> Hello.
> I'm about to install F7 on my main computer, and I'd like advice on what 
> directories I should split off of / (i.e. put on its own partition).
> 
> I already have /home split off, and I'd like to have the webbrowser 
> cache split off too (makes backups quicker).
splitting these off does not make backups faster.
> 
> I recenlty read that /usr could/should also be split off - opinions? I 
> should note that I'm the only user, and I don't plan on adding much of 
> anything (i.e. software). Would this make sense in my case?
> 
> Any other suggestions?
> 
We need to have at least one controversy every day so here is mine.
If you have a large server there are plenty of reasons to split oyur
distribution into several partitions. But for a single user machine it
is more trouble than its worth. I call the splitting the Sun Fallacy
which was started when disks were about 140 M in size and multiple disks
were needed for your system.

In your case putting it all in one partition is better.
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