On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, Hal MacArgle wrote: > On 01-26, Ken Moffat wrote: > > > > If you're going to separate /usr, and the reasons for doing so probably > > don't apply to many people here, even 3GB should be too much. Depends, > > of course, on exactly what you put there, but assuming you don't install > > a _lot_ of things you aren't going to use then 3GB is more than enough > > for a _full_ system (except /home). > > > > Care to comment on the reasons for putting /usr in it's > separate partition?? >
Not particularly, but I'll do my best ;) > For the many personal and home office work stations wouldn't > that be overkill and not within the KISS philosophy?? > Yes to overkill. If it's a simple way of making it harder to damage things then perhaps it's not outwith the spirit of KISS. > Just curious. Cheers. <grin> > > Hal - in Terra Alta, WV - Slackware GNU/Linux 9.0 (2.4.20) > Utrum Per Hebdomadem Perveniam > . As far as I understand, the main reason to separate /usr is to do with permissions - if it's separate, you can mount it r/o. However, you can also mount '/' r/o with (quite a lot of planning and) messing about. I'm sure I've read about people mounting an nfs export at /usr, but that does assume that all clients are on a similar architecture. My security knowledge isn't great. I'm sure I've missed out other advantages. Ken -- This is a job for Riviera Kid! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
