[vox] A philosophical question about partitioning

[Michael Wenk]

On Tuesday 19 April 2005 10:09, ME wrote:
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All I am going to say is that your reasoning is not quite good.  If you want 
to protect your file systems from being overfull by zealous users, quota the 
file system.  I also have set up many multi user unix systems.  I'm firmly in 
the camp that you don't partition unless you absolutely have to(expanding / 
is excruciatingly painful, especially when /var has several GB free.)  I've 
personally seen that scenario much more often 

Partitioning does make defragmenting a bit easier.  I'm not sure how much that 
helps these days.  I do remember back in the day if I did a 
backup/newfs/restore, I could up the performance of the filesystem by a good 
15-20% which helped make the users a bit happier.  

Also, I used to hear the argument that sitting through a 9 GB fsck was 
painful.  Then again, how is fsck'ing several file systems that add up to 9 
GB any different?  




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