Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 29 Jun 2003 20:42:13 +0100 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: File System conversion -- ideas |
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John Bradford wrote: > It's usually more flexible just to partition the space you need, and > add more partitions when necessary. For typical desktop use, swap > isn't even necessary with 1 GB of physical RAM.
Partitions are never the right size when you fill one up.
I used to do what you describe, and got fed up when I had too many strange symbolic links around, things like
/var/www -> /disk2/www /var/log/httpd -> /disk2/httpd_logs /home/jamie -> /disk2/jamie /home/jamie/downloads -> /disk3/jamie_downloads
etc.
It seemed simpler to have one filesystem, and indeed it was.
(Now I have two drives at home I am back to the above, unfortunately. At least the laptop is nice and simple, as it can only have 1 drive :)
Also, on a dedicated server I still use symbolic links between partitions as it is too risky to try rearranging the partitions remotely, and too expensive to rent more disk space.
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