I would appreciate your opinions on the subject of disk partitioning.
I tend to partition a Fedora or Red Hat AS installation. With generally the following configuration:
/ 4 GB
/boot 100 MB
/home 4 GB
/opt 4 GB
/usr 10 to 20 GB
/usr/local 1.5 GB
/var 4 GB
/tmp 2 GB
Then other file systems as required for application, databases and network shares.
My co-workers advocate accepting the defaults with the entire disk going into root.
My feeling is that if you partition the drive, you tend to reduce the chances of system problems with the root partition becoming 100% full. However, this does require some additional work at installation time and possibly additional administration over time of production usage.
Rant on please.
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