🚀 go-pugleaf

Daniel <menna@parametrix.ch> wrote:
> nicht immer so einfach, im vornherein zu bestimmen, welche partition wieviel
> platz haben soll.

in short:

   /boot should be the first partition, and it should be around 2 MB

Then, you can do whenever you want: I suggest, for home use, one single
/ partition and a swap partition:

   /dev/sda1     /boot
   /dev/sda2     swap
   /dev/sda3     /

At least SuSE and Debian support this. This will also fix the 1024
cylinder BIOS problem while at the same time allowing for one single
fs.

For server applications, I suggest you create fs for /, /usr and /var,
and possibly additional ones for services like squid, etc. It makes
recovery faster and also sometimes also booting (parallel fsck).

And special fs like for squid you could mkfs on reboot to be much
much faster.

Alternatively, when ext3/reiserfs are stable, the fsck time argument
will fall. Also, if LVM starts to be widely used, the problem of
dimensioning partitions will also vanish: LVM and ext2 support
dynamic resizing (even mounted, as beta).