[luau] Partitions

[Matthew John Darnell]

> On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 08:00:49PM -1000, Warren Togami wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I use noatime on all write partitions unless there is a mail
> client that needs to read atime for biff-like (mail arrival
> detection) features.
>
> Another reason for multiple partitions these days is it can help
> reduce the time it takes to fsck the filesystems after a really
> bad system crash.
>
> -Vince


How do you partition your disks for a general use server, sendmail, file
serving etc?

I thought noatime was a typo.  Guess I need to look it up!

-Matt