On Mon, 01 Aug 2011 10:22:02 +0200 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn <chith...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Samuli Suominen schrieb: > > should think this inverse; make separate partitions for the data > > directories such as /home or /var > > have /usr on / > > so when / goes down, you still keep your data > > Putting /home and /var on separate partitions can increase isolation > even further, that is true. > > On desktop systems, directories outside /usr and /home contribute not > much to the total disk space used. So if you have one / and one /usr > partition, the total amount of data that would be exposed to > corruption is not much different from having all of /, /home, /usr > and /var separate. On desktop systems, it is common to have random hacks around. Sometimes large amounts of data are in /var, sometimes somewhere in /mnt, sometimes in /home. I don't think that setup is really worth considering deeply. > On servers, it might make sense to keep /var separate depending on > which services write there. BTW is the /srv concept dead already? -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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