On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 6:11 PM, Rob Huffstedtler <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 6:22 PM, Curt Lundgren <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I don't know about "less likely" - for me it's more that the average disk >> drive has vastly more space than when it made sense to have "protective" >> partitions. We remember entire systems that had 300 MB drives, perhaps >> less. It was easy to tip the scales at that point. >> > > There was also the performance argument, back in the day. When HDDs were > slow, having /var and /home on different physical drives made some sense. If > you're going to put it all on one physical volume, I'm not sure what we > thought we were accomplishing. For some of us, I'm sure it was like why > granny cut off both ends of the ham before she put it in the oven.
Typically the reason is security. I once had someone discover that I had left anonymous FTP enabled (on /var) and because /var/log was a separate partition, they did not manage to prevent my logs from working. Of course, I'm sure they were also a bit miffed when their file topped out at 64MB, because the /var partition was so limited in space. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
