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Setup partitioning question

Asked by Jeff

Hello, I need to install and harden 14.04. when I install on VMware workstation for practice, I have the option to create separate partitions for home, tmp, var, usr, root. I need to install on ESXi5.5 and when I do this, the partitioning options on install don't appear to be available and I'm curious if anyone knows why this may be?

Happy Holidays,

Jeff

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Best actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

You only need separate partitions if you anticipate the file system getting full. This stops the folder downing the whole server.

Having /var as it's own partition for logging servers and so forth. File servers benefit from having /home on its own partition.

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Jeff (jddig2000) said : 		#2

Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.