HD partitions?

[Tom Buskey]

On 6/16/05, Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> wrote:
> On Thursday 16 June 2005 9:16 am, Puissante wrote:
> > I would strongly suggest using Grub over Lilo -- mostly for religious
> > reasons. Actually, I've always used Grub and have never touched Lilo
> > except maybe once in the past, and I like being able to reconfigure Grub
> > settings during the boot process. You can change kernel paramenters, for
> > instance, which sometimes can be a lifesaver. Not sure what Lilo has to
> > offer in this regard.
> I would suggest Grub for technical reasons.
> First, you can update your kernel without having to run any kind of grub
> configurator. With Lilo, any time you update the kernel, either by building
> a custom kernel or by receiving an update from the OS vendor (SuSE, Red
> Hat, Fedora, ...), you would need to run lilo.

Solaris is going to be using grub for x86 solaris in the future too FWIW.

Everyone has had good points.  Here's yet another because I can't resist :-)

/home for your data.  Always keep data seperate from your OS.
/boot because it can't be on a journaled FS (or couldn't in the past.)
/ of course
swap of course

Maybe /var if you have lots of log files (web server on the net, etc.)

There are good reasons for having more of course.
I like to use journaled file systems to add a bit of protection for
crashes.  I also like to make sure the OS partitions are supported by
the rescue CD.  Data partitions can be treated seperately because
they're seperate.

Keeping data seperate from the OS also means you can upgrade/wipe the
OS and leave the data untouched.

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