> George Vieira wrote:
>
> I was just wondering why is it so crucial to have different mount points on
> a unix system? Eg. create /, /usr , /tmp , /home
Flexibility and security mostly...
- You can mount your various filesystems different, ie. /usr and /boot as
read-only... You *want* to do this. :)
- Changing things around easily should you need more space - this makes more
sense when you combine it with things like LVM and resizing filesystems on
the fly, etc.
- The ol' "let's annoy the admin by filling up /tmp and /var with mp3s when
/var/spool is mounted on the same parition/volume" trick.
- Less relevant with single drive systems, but also true, you can mount for
speed. Many people use IDE kickstart disks for things like /boot and /usr,
whilst spending lots of money on speedy SCSI drives and RAID arrays for
/var and /tmp.
On my home system, I don't bother, but for servers I do. I did learn the
hard way though. :(
- Jeff
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