On 2011-06-08 Kevin McGregor wrote:
Is that optimal? Recommended? Some would say that /home, /tmp, /var and others should reside in separate partitions/filesystems. Discuss. :-)
Better late than never...
I've recently come to the conclusion that for most stuff I do, skip LVM. LVM was great when resize2fs and gparted didn't exist. But with those tools now being so advanced, everything I cared to use LVM for is now handled in a much simpler way.
If you use LVM and still want to do resize type things in a way that LVM can't do (ran into this recently) then it's a major pain to work around LVM to use simple resize2fs commands.
That said, I still use the boot/root/swap 3 partition setup, as Fedora still likes it that way. Maybe separate boot isn't required anymore, but if it ain't broke, why fix it?
On my personal systems I do some other wacky stuff for performance reasons (splitting things on different disks for parallelism). So no harm to having separate /tmp or /var/spool/squid if disks permit.
If it's a system I care about, I'll do md RAID[16]. If it's a less important system (living room mythtv comp) then I'll just do 1 disk.