[luau] Partitions

[Warren Togami]

On Wed, 2003-05-07 at 19:47, Matt Darnell wrote:
> Aloha,
>  
> When installing RH 8.0 you can have the Disk Druid auto configure the
> partitions.  It configures so many partitions.  Is that a relic to
> when hard drives were 6MB and you had to worry about logs filling up
> your user space?
>  
> On a Windoze box I do the standard two partitions, one for
> applications and logs, they have a relatively fixed size, and another
> one for data.
>  
> Is something else I should be thinking about?  Two partitions seems
> adequate, one swap and one with a / mount point.
>  
> -Matt

I personally think that one swap and one large / partition is good for
almost every desktop and server.  There are some special cases like
wanting to separate a cache partition mounting with noatime and other
performance increasing options for squid server, but otherwise
separating / into multiple partitions just isn't needed for most people.

Warren