On 30-Jan-06 Wayne Stallwood wrote:
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.
On balance, I'm inclined to agree with you, Wayne. These days there's not usually a problem with having very large paritions.
The main reason I still hesitate is that if you change or update your Linux distro, it's more secure (for the sake of keeping your old stuff intact which includes all "data" files you created) to have at least /home on a separate partition, and I like to have another one at least which I call /usr/local/depot containing all sorts of stuff I want to keep in hand.
Cheers, Ted.
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