Hi, On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 6:19 PM, Prasenjit Giri <[email protected]>wrote:
> besides setting up partition why is it advisable to mount various dirs > as etc, var, root, home on different partition ? > > if i happen to use a single hard drive what good will it bring me. I also had the same problem myself. So essentially I have been making just two partitions "swap" and "/", everything else is just a directory under "/" Thanks म हा सा ग र for the link. To summarize the relevant text from the document : <snip> Putting “/tmp” and “/home” on separate partitions is pretty much mandatory if users have shell access to the server (protection against SUID programs), splitting these off into separate partitions also prevent users from filling up any critical file system (denial of service attack), putting “/var”, and “/usr” on separate partitions is also a very good idea. By isolating the “/var” partition, you protect your root partition from overfilling (denial of service attack). </snip> Based on this, I think for personal machine, which isn't a server or on the public network, having all /home, /var /tmp on single partition should be OK. If you have multiple physical disks, putting "/home"on separate "disk" makes sense. I would like to hear comments from others on this, specifically in the context of " Standalone, Desktop Linux" -Mandar _______________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List
