A very nice explanation, Janne, thank you! On Tue, 13 Feb 2024 14:12:10 +0100 Janne Johansson <[email protected]> wrote:
> A few. The partitioning scheme allow certain parts of the filesystem > to have different permissions, > > /dev/sd1a on / type ffs (local) > /dev/sd1e on /home type ffs (local, nodev, nosuid) > /dev/sd1d on /usr type ffs (local, nodev) > /dev/sd0a on /usr/local type ffs (local, nodev, wxallowed) > > but also if something decides to log like crazy and fills up /var and > you have /var ( or /var/log ) as a separate partition, the rest of the > system is not affected by it going full and it might be lots easier to > recover from it when the rest of the paths work as expected. > > It's a tradeoff between having to know in advance where data will go > or not, versus being able to prevent some nasty issues that could > occur if you let someone else run code on your machine. > > For a throwaway VM that you can reproduce, it would not matter so > much. For a box you really care about and is meant to run for yeats, > it matters more.
