<p dir="ltr">All one flat outside of /boot. As the sizes are tiny in VM use compared to normal server use, it made sense to go simple. Any needed big partitions are hosted elsewhere and mounted over the network.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 9, 2014 11:47 AM, "James Sumners" <<a href="mailto:james.sumners@gmail.com">james.sumners@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I've been asked to research how others layout their filesystems in virtual machines. I long ago decided it wasn't worth splitting stuff like /var off onto its own partition. I particularly don't think it's necessary in a virtual machine. But I need to get some other opinions before I can be validated in mine.<div><br></div><div>So, how do you guys partition the filesystems in your virtual machines?<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div>James Sumners<br><a href="http://james.roomfullofmirrors.com/" target="_blank">http://james.roomfullofmirrors.com/</a><br><br>"All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted."<br><br>Missionaria Protectiva, Text QIV (decto)<br>CH:D 59</div>
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