you'll probably get a million other responses, but
a few reasons
* it easier to rebuild a system if all your /home data is on a seperate
system - which ive had to do !
* if u mount under /var & /tmp under diff partitions, it protects the
systems root drive from running out of space, ive heard that is root
fills up 100% then kernel won't boot although ive never seen this happen
personally
* on linux, you can only set quotas on seperate partitions
* not having all your cookies in one basket
--Stephen
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From: George Vieira [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 10:22 AM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: [SLUG] File systems and redundency
Hi all,
I was just wondering why is it so crucial to have different mount points on
a unix system? Eg. create /, /usr , /tmp , /home
Why is it so much better to have multiple partitions instead of having
everything mounted as (/) root?
Sure some times the file system could crash and at least it's only 1 file
system and root or /home or /usr is still OK but what other reasons are
there? Speed? Fragmentation? Etc.....
thanks,
George Vieira
Network Administrator
http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au
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