[wplug] partitioning

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So in my scheme which would be considered OS and user data?

/, /tmp, and /boot  - OS Data?
/usr, /var, /home - User Data?

I'm guessing I can eliminate /boot and the files will just be left in /. Can
I then combine the 3 user partitions into one?

Arnaud-
 

-----Original Message-----
From: wplug-bounces+lists=pghconsult.com at wplug.org
[mailto:wplug-bounces+lists=pghconsult.com at wplug.org] On Behalf Of Jonathan
S Billings
Sent: Friday, April 30, 2004 10:45 AM
To: General user list
Subject: Re: [wplug] partitioning

On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 10:15, Drew from Zhrodague wrote:
> 	/boot	250m	Redhat 9 wanted 250m, I don't care, personally.
> 	swap	.5-4g	depends on RAM, whether it's gonna be busy, etc.
> 	/	rest	All of the rest of disk or raid.
> 

When deciding a site-wide partitioning setup, we chose to try to separate OS
data from user data.  Having a single / partition means that if the
filesystem goes bad, you lose everything.  Also, at the time, we were using
a backup system that read the filesystem directly, rather than using the OS
to read data off the partition.  Although we've since moved to other backup
software, we've found that it is easiest to maintain and upgrade user's
hardware if we separate OS data and user data.

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Jonathan S Billings <billings at negate.org>

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