[ale] VM guest partitioning practices

[Jim Kinney]

We use VMS as test environment so having a 10-20 G drive prevents storage
abuse.

Elsewhere I have quota turned on. Faculty get soft notices only. Others get
a soft notice then a hard lock out. Without it, they download everything.
On Dec 9, 2014 2:51 PM, "Lightner, Jeff" <JLightner at dsservices.com> wrote:

> I disagree.   One benefit to having multiple filesystems is you keep
> people from seeing one huge chunk and deciding it's a great dumping
> ground.    After more than 20 years of doing this on UNIX and more than 10
> on Linux I can count on one hand the number of times I've found issues
> related to separate filesystems as opposed to the plethora I've seen when
> it is all on one.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Todor
> Fassl
> Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2014 2:40 PM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] VM guest partitioning practices
>
> I think creating a seperate partition for /var (at least) is counter
> productive. If /var fills up, your machine is going to go down because a
> lot of services will hang if they can't write to the syslog.  Similar logic
> applies to /usr. I can see having a seperate partion for /home but that is
> about it.
>
>
>
> On 12/09/2014 10:43 AM, James Sumners wrote:
> > I've been asked to research how others layout their filesystems in
> > virtual machines. I long ago decided it wasn't worth splitting stuff
> > like /var off onto its own partition. I particularly don't think it's
> > necessary in a virtual machine. But I need to get some other opinions
> > before I can be validated in mine.
> >
> > So, how do you guys partition the filesystems in your virtual machines?
> >
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