On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 10:00:50PM +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote
> Am Sonntag, 2. September 2007 schrieb Neil Bothwick:
> >
> > One disadvantage of your system that springs immediately to mind is
> > that if a user manages to fill /home, it will stop the whole system
> > working properly because /var is also full.
This setup is for a desktop PC that has "a user" not "a bunch of
users". I am *NOT* running a server with a bunch of users. If I was,
I'd be using quotas to prevent the problem described above.
> Another one is filesystem corruption, or even human error. Placing
> everything into one single filesystem is a Bad Thing (tm). I.e. you
> can't mount vital parts of the system ro to prevent accidental
> deletion, or keep data or home volumes safely unmounted until they
> are really needed/accessed (by use of the automounter),
a) I'm running a home desktop PC, not a corporate server. If the
"users" (i.e. me) can't co-ordinate with each other, then I've
got a badly split personality<g>
b) I have the system backed up on a 320 gig external USB drive
c) "automount" problems seem to crop up often in this list
d) more partitions means more things to go wrong
> you can't use different filesystems for different purposes, etc.
You mean like ext2fs for a small rarely-written-to partition and
reiserfs for a gigantic partition with lots of files?
> Kids, don't try this at home :-)
On the contrary, do this at home, but think twice before trying it on
a corporate server.
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