15 Nov
2002
15 Nov
'02
6:45 p.m.
Richard Kettlewell wrote:
Why bother separating /, /usr and /usr/local into separate filesystems, BTW? I can see why a separate / makes sense if there's only limited space for the root filesystem, but that's evidently not the case here...
Keeping it seperate means it is easier to run df and see which filesystems are nearly full and which are empty, especially as this simplifies taking backups. Bascially it means you don't have to run a du -s and wait to find out how much space a filesystem is taking up (and raise your load average) as df will return quickly.
Adam