begin quoting John H. Robinson, IV as of Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 09:17:57AM -0800: [snip] > There were a few reasons. One of which being LILO not reading past a > certain point of a hard drive, so you have a small / or /boot near the > beginning. No longer an issue, for either LILO or GRUB
No 2TB limit? > Another being keeping / small so if a drive error occurs, / has less of > a chance of getting nailed. Still applicable. Good backups mitigate > this. A related reason is that a small / will take less time to fsck. That can save a lot of aggravation. > The third being an errant process that fills up (say) /var won't touch / > (of / fills up, things can get Really Interesting. Of course, when /var > fills up, things also get Really Interesting so your mileage may vary). Different UNIXy operating systems handle this differently. Solaris does a pretty decent job of handling this sort of abuse. (I've done this a time or two -- along with exhausting swap.) > Similarly, a user filling up $HOME won't touch / or /var. A laptop is > usually not a multi-user system, so you don't need those protections. > Quotas also prevent Evil People from filling up partitions. Only if those Evil People are using the system -- which gets us into the multi-user space -- if they're just hammering at your door, they can quite easily fill up /var/log... > I am certain interested people can come up with more reasons why a good > partitioning scheme is A Good Thing and I likely will not argue. My only > point is that a laptop does not have the same concerns. Primary concerns for a laptop, I should think, would be: a) survives power-offs/imprudent shutoffs b) boots very quickly c) easy to quickly back up important data > A desktop or a server . . . totally different story. I don't expect a server to boot quickly. :) > > Anyway symlinks it is until the next desktop... > > You can also use bind mounts. This is what I have done in the past. I > find it to be a *little* bit cleaner than symlinks. That is just my > opinion. though I find bind mounts not quite flexible enough, and not quite as clean as symlinks. Likewise, my opinion. :) -- _ |\_ \| -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
