Re: Partition suggestions.
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 04:25:11PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> /usr can be read-only while /var must be read-write. Also /var might
> cause fragmentation on the FS and then files in /usr will fragment
> when you update the system.
Then you have to remount when you upgrade stuff, and that usually means
shutting down services in some cases. Extremely annoying hassle.
As for fragmentation, don't worry about it. Good filesystems only
fragment if they are close to full, which also hurts their performance,
so as long as you don't run at like 90%+ of capacity fragmentation is
not something to worry about.
> Also /usr can become damaged by writes to /var and crashes. If you
> have /usr read-only it can't get corrupted.
That depends on the type of crash. If they are on the same disk nothing
is ever completely safe.
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Len Sorensen
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