Re: computer rendered un-usable
On Sun, 2013-06-23 at 14:38 -0500, Kent West wrote:
> On 6/23/13 12:46 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > On Sat, 2013-06-22 at 22:56 -0400, Doug wrote:
> >> / and /home and /swap.
> > It usually makes no sense to have it on separated partitions.
> >
> >
> >
> There are good reasons to have separate partitions, although they are
> generally less valuable for single-user home machines.
>
> For example, you can mount your / directory read-only, which provides
> some extra security to the system.
That's a good argument to separate /home from / even for some home
machines, but usually a separation has got the disadvantage that disk
space is less good allocated and the additional security is minimal,
since nobody has got write access to /, but root and if somebody gets
root privileges, it's also possible to remount / rw.
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