Everything is a Freaking DNS problem - root http://127.0.0.1:8080/blog/taxonomy/term/1150/0 en On Filesystem Layouts http://127.0.0.1:8080/blog/filesystem-layouts <p><a href="http://grep.be/blog/en/computer/filesystem_layouts?show_comments=yes" rel="nofollow">Wouter</a> blogged about his favourite Laptop filesystem layout , just one filesystem , and <a href="http://blog.andrew.net.au/2009/01/15#filesystem_layouts" rel="nofollow">some geeks</a> think that's a bad idea.</p> <p>Actually I can understand Wouter not wanting to have different /usr/ /var or other partitions on his laptop , the 20Mb left and 300Mb right you loose on different partitions are exactly what you want to use on your laptop, however isolating partitions also has it's benefits</p> <p>My setup looks similar to this :<br /> <div class="geshifilter"><pre class="text geshifilter-text" style="font-family:monospace;"><ol><li style="font-family: monospace; font-weight: normal;"><div style="font-family: monospace; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal">/</div></li><li style="font-family: monospace; font-weight: normal;"><div style="font-family: monospace; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal">/home</div></li><li style="font-family: monospace; font-weight: normal;"><div style="font-family: monospace; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal">/opt</div></li><li style="font-family: monospace; font-weight: normal;"><div style="font-family: monospace; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal">/altroot</div></li></ol></pre></div></p> <p>/ and altroot so you can run 2 distros, keeping my local data on a different partition so I can upgrade , switch distro etc.. and /opt .. for the software that isn't shipped as a package.</p> <p>Obviously I use LVM so I can use these different partitions also as storage for virtual machines that can boot a different distro either on the physical or the virtual machine.</p> <p>And obviously the rules for servers are different than the ones for laptops or even personal desktops for that matter</p> http://127.0.0.1:8080/blog/filesystem-layouts#comments lvm no root root Sun, 18 Jan 2009 13:04:09 +0000 Kris Buytaert 858 at http://127.0.0.1:8080/blog