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bogi wrote: > Hi Mark, > If you ask me my oppinion, the seperate /home /var /tmp and heck /usr > partitions should be a default in the Linux world also. In fact many distros > do exactly that if you choose automatic partitioning. As for putting /home in > /usr/home , well what about the abomination /home/users/.... , and i will not > mention the distro that does that :-) Though I agree for the most part, on my laptop the seperate mount points is not very efficient (multiboot config). There are situations where a single / makes sense. Also, on most of my servers (or ones that I manage), users do not get shell access, so a seperate /home partition is a waste of space. > And you are right, filling / is survivable, but is not a very good policy. > There is usually a few % of disk space in reserve, and only root can access > it, so even when it says full, it is full minus the reserve. Now the trouble > starts when a process running as root does the filling, then you dont have a > reserve anymore ... > On the subject, it might be intresting to compile a document about the many > different fs-structures floating about in the unix world, i think i would be > a useful document , how about ? > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDY7RWwRXgH3rKGfMRAvVsAJsGzJlmdOtZYFvMEvha2BsXv5/lGgCgjjTd 8/EKsRipIghc+UDwPcTU9XY= =kx5c -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
