[ale] VM guest partitioning practices

Todor Fassl fassl.tod at gmail.com
Tue Dec 9 14:40:25 EST 2014


I think creating a seperate partition for /var (at least) is counter 
productive. If /var fills up, your machine is going to go down because a 
lot of services will hang if they can't write to the syslog.  Similar 
logic applies to /usr. I can see having a seperate partion for /home but 
that is about it.



On 12/09/2014 10:43 AM, James Sumners wrote:
> 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.
>
> So, how do you guys partition the filesystems in your virtual machines?
>
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