Re: [tlug] Current practices for Linux partioning?

[Francois Cartegnie <fcartegnie@example.com>]

Le 11/04/2012 09:31, Attila Kinali a écrit :
> No. As i said, for a single user system it doesn't make sense.
> If i fill up /home, i know i've filled it up and have problems anyways.
> If i fill up / i want to notice it as soon as possible. And as i am
> the only user on the system, there is no need to isolate users from
> each other (or their stupidity for that matter)

What about the "pool" based fs way (btrfs) which will still allow
splitting without the drawbacks ?

Splitting is still useful to compress filesystems (source code) or do
efficient snapshot based backups (*), or easily change/revert rootfs.

Francois

(*) Although it isn't efficient as zfs. (zfs snapshot, zfs send, and its
zero stat())