>Robert Urban wrote: >to me, this just looks like a horrible mess. I have never understood >why people should be so keen on creating thousands of microscopic filesystems. >For me, the advantage of being able to have several classes of filesystem >content all take advantage of the available free space of a filesystem/partition >far outweighs any need to segregate classes of filesystem content into >separate partitions. > >For example, how could /usr/X11R6 possibly represent a threat to eat all the >space is /usr? X11R6 content is static. (yes, I know, software packages >put stuff there, but for the purposes of this discussion it's static). > >Arguments can presumably be made for /var/www, and /var/mail, /home, /usr/src, >and /tmp, but the rest just seems like a waste of energy. > >I imagine I'd do: > >/ >/var >/usr > >and as necessary >/var/mail >/var/www >/usr/src >/home >/tmp > >Rob Urban
I have to agree, except I would add a /var/log to the "as necessary" (and make it pretty big) as I often deal with firewalls and it's nice (I think) to limit the logs ability to totally run amuck Although it isn't strictly required since /var is in it's own partition. stuart
