[ale] VM guest partitioning practices

Todor Fassl fassl.tod at gmail.com
Tue Dec 9 15:08:01 EST 2014


How are people dumping to /var, /usr, or /? Like I said, I could see 
creating a seperate /home. I could have added /tmp. Are you talking 
about other sysadmins dumping to /var?




On 12/09/2014 01:49 PM, Lightner, Jeff wrote:
> I disagree.   One benefit to having multiple filesystems is you keep people from seeing one huge chunk and deciding it's a great dumping ground.    After more than 20 years of doing this on UNIX and more than 10 on Linux I can count on one hand the number of times I've found issues related to separate filesystems as opposed to the plethora I've seen when it is all on one.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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>> So, how do you guys partition the filesystems in your virtual machines?
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