Mark Wendt wrote: > The /boot dir holds the Linux boot images and remains static only as > long as you don't upgrade your version of the system. The /root > partition only remains static if you don't su or log in as root (that's > it's home dir...) If your /usr partition gets corrupted, at least on a > linux box, you may not even be able to boot single user, since a lot of > the system binaries and libraries live there. > Yes, when I wrote that, I was thinking more of /home than /usr. Yes, if the /usr fs is mangled, you would be able to boot the kernel, but not do a lot past that. So, keeping /usr on a different partition from /home and /var would give some protection. Lately, though, file systems have gotten quite robust, I haven't had real corruption problems in a long time.
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