OT: redhat

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Nov 05, 2004, Fairlight wrote:
>This public service announcement was brought to you by Bill Vermillion:
>> 
>> I wish more people would take the time to understand file systems
>> and how they work.   As above - I still see many advocating 
>> one huge file system - and one of their reasons is so they don't
>> run out of space in any one file system.  I think they must
>> be MS converts.
>
>Not necessarily.  I've seen systems where people allocated the defaults
>from the vendor and ended up running low on /usr, etc.  Having /usr
>separate was also a pain depending on what was and wasn't dynamically
>linked against what at boot.  :(

When I installed my FreeBSD system here, I looked at the default sizes that
came up with an automatic allocation, and doubled them all.

Every couple of years it seems that I have to double the amount of space I
allocate for the ``/'' file system on Linux systems.

...
>With journalling to avoid fsck's, and good backup policies, is it even as
>much of an issue these days, that a large single / really -needs- to be
>avoided?

As a rule, if a file system gets nuked, it's ``/'', and I really like to
have all my critical data in another file system.  I've also found that
when a journaling file system goes bad, it goes *REALLY* bad.

Bill
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