On 28/11/15 02:09, Johnny B Good wrote:

I'm rather disappointed to see that Ubuntu and its derivatives resorting
to the madness of a single huge partition for the /boot and /home folders
and using the creation of a swap file instead of a dedicated swap
partition space. Luckily, you can over-ride the default automated
partitioning scheme used by the installer but it needs some familiarity
and an understanding of partitioning to get this reasonably right.

That's just stupid - and forgoes all the good unix principles.

Me: I use either:

/boot, / and /srv for data (and /home is mapped in the last one)

or /boot and LVM for everything else, which makes new installs alongside
the old easy.

I have not set up SWAP for some time now - having plenty of RAM. My
VMWare servers at work, all 190 odd no not use SWAP either[1] *unless*
it is probably of benefit (like a server once a day does a big batch
job, then quiesces for the rest of the time).

[1] Because all that swapping is being concentrated down onto one poor
SAN group. I find it better to over allocate RAM a bit and let VMWare do
its bubble and borrow thing between VMs.