30 Jan
2006
30 Jan
'06
9:10 p.m.
On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 13:04 +0000, Keith Watson wrote:
Personally I always have separate partitions for /usr, /var, /home, /tmp, /home/[my home dir] and /[my mail dir] because;
I tend to avoid this on my own machines.
I usually run a separate /home but that's about it.
On some servers where I expect /var to be busy I have put this on it's own partition but that was mainly before journaling filesystems were common.
Before when I have seen such granular partition schemes someone has often managed to underestimate at least one of the partition sizes and then I think the inconvenience of sorting it out outweighs the benefits.
Would love to hear other thoughts or opinions on this.