Partition optimization

[John Nelson]

On Redhat systems I usually make /boot, / and /var partitions.  Yellow Dog
is a little different from Redhat so I have an HFS boot partition.  I also
combine /boot and / are combined.  YDL complained bitterly when I tried to
divide /boot and /.

Just some observations.  Using just one big Linux partition is likely the 
best solution if you have the disk space.

-- John


On Mon, 6 May 2002, Iain Stevenson wrote:

> Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 09:34:20 +0100
> From: Iain Stevenson <iain@iainstevenson.com>
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> Subject: Re: Partition optimization
> 
> 
> I like the look of this one:
> 
> > 4 Gb:  100 Mb for MacOS, 128 Mb for swap, 1 Gb for /home, rest for /
> > 1 Gb:  all used as 1 Gb mirror of /home (via raid or cron job)
> 
> Putting / and /usr on different partitions is a bad idea since the system 
> initialisation scripts aren't set up to support this.  You can make it work 
> but you'll spend hours hacking scripts.
> 
> A single partition for the system files has the merit of simplicity.  You 
> can easily install an IDE card and drive in the future if space becomes a 
> problem.
> 
>   Iain
> 
> 
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