Re: [tlug] Current practices for Linux partioning?

[Edward Middleton <edward.middleton@example.com>]

On 04/11/2012 09:56 AM, Simon Cozens wrote:
> 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.

I am going to disagree with you on this one.  I don't think large disk
sizes changes anything.

When you have a couple of terabytes in a log file and you need the log
file to debug why you have a couple of terabytes in a log file the
partition size does matter.  In this case failing fast is much more
preferable.

This is the same reason I don't use more then 100MB swap partition on a
desktop/laptop.  If I can't resolve the issue before that expires I
would much prefer the os to start kill stuff, rather then churning.

I had BIOS issues when dealing with 3TB drives. I guess if I had newer
hardware it might not have been a problem but that was the case in the past.

The only reason I can see for not using multiple partitions is to avoid
repartitioning and LVM solves this issue.

Edward