[GTALUG] Boot setup issues

Lennart Sorensen lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca
Mon Sep 17 11:35:01 EDT 2018


On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 03:32:11PM -0500, o1bigtenor wrote:
> OK - - - good to know. For many years it was /boot, / (or /root),
> /usr, /var, /tmp,
> swap, /usr/local and /home. I've had enough issues because / was too small,
> ditto for /usr.
> So on a new system I can drop /boot and only add /efi or ????

/boot/EFI I think is the usual mount point for the EFI boot partition
(which has to be some kind of FAT filesystem).

And any modern distribution seems like it has a fit if /usr is split
from / so don't do that anymore.  Disks aren't 20MB each anymore
after all.

/home split works well for some people.  I rarely do it, although I have
at least one system where I did it.

/var split is handy for database heavy systems, and probably some other
server cases.

-- 
Len Sorensen


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