Best Filesystems?

[Peter]

On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, William Park wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 07:02:07PM -0400, CLIFFORD ILKAY wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On August 10, 2005 11:12, Steve wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have a question about filesystem types. I've got an 80GB drive
>>> that I'm planning to reformat and install Ubuntu. I plan to create
>>> 3 partitions:
>>>
>>> 9.0 GB - For the OS and system files.
>>> 512 MB - SWAP (equal to amount of RAM)
>>> 70 GB - For user data files which will include many MP3s, OGGs and
>>> a few DVD rips (ie. mostly single large files > 1MB each)
>>
>> I think putting all the OS and system files in one big partition is a
>> poor choice when you have room to spare on your disk. I typically
>> have the following partitions:
>
> I disagree.  It's probably the best way.  That is, one partition for /
> and another for /home.  Everything else goes in one or the other
> partition.  Of course, another disk for backup, but it's off topic.

Imnsho the best way is / ro, /usr ro, /var rw, /tmp rw or dynamic fs, 
/home rw and maybe /home/$USER nfs or partition or on-the-fly 
decompressed archive from disk-on-key depending on needs.

Peter
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