Re: [tlug] Current practices for Linux partioning?

[Simon Cozens <simon@example.com>]

On 11/04/2012 07:07, Jonathan Byrne wrote:
> So you're not even separating out /home anymore?

Most - although not all - of the old reasons for partitioning just don't apply 
any more; many of them were hacks around disk size limitations. Disks are big 
enough these days that there's less worry that people will fill up the disk 
and screw over the system, so separate partitions to isolate potential damage 
aren't needed, and /boot was only necessary when BIOSes weren't smart enough 
to cope with booting from large root partitions.

Stick everything in / unless you are doing complicated things with encryption 
or network mounting.

Simon