On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 17:20, Mark Ferlatte wrote: > Paul Morgan said on Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 03:49:52PM -0500: > > > There are currently Debian packages which are needed at boot time which > > > depend upon datafiles kept in /usr. discover is one of them, there may be > > > more. In woody, therefor, a seperate /usr can cause problems. Does it > > > gain you much? > > > > > > Why should /tmp be its own partition instead of symlinking /tmp -> > > > /var/tmp? > > > > > > Is there any need for a /boot partition on modern hardware? Why do you > > > like a seperate boot partition? > > > > > > I'm just curious as to the reasoning behind your partitioning scheme. > > > > > > M > > > > FHS says "The contents of the root filesystem should be adequate to boot, > > restore, recover, and/or repair the system." > > Right... so, again with the "why put /usr on a seperate partition from /"? > Making / large enough to hold /usr certainly fulfills the req of the contents > of the root filesystem being adequate to boot, restore, recover and repair the > system. /usr should NOT be needed to repair, recover, maintain, restore or boot. It goes against everything I have ever known about UNIX/Linux/*BSD. > > /tmp and /var/tmp have different purposes. Check FHS again. Actually, I > > have both /tmp and /var/tmp on their own logical volumes. > > Okay, so neither your /tmp or /var/tmp volumes are available at boot time. So, > why have a seperate /tmp and /var/tmp? Because it allows you to keep systems over runs from disabling the machine. Ever tried to access a machine with a FULL / and/or /var? > According to the FHS 2.2, the only difference between /tmp and /var/tmp is that > data in /var/tmp be "more persistant" than data in /tmp, but the only > restriction on /tmp is that programs not assume that data in /tmp persists > between invocations of a program. > > In other words, /var/tmp appears to completely fulfill the requirements of > /tmp, which makes me wonder why they are seperate. Because they are treated differently in practice... which allows something to store a map of stuff, or a session cache in /var/tmp and to use /tmp as a spillover area for temp data to be worked on. -- greg, greg@gregfolkert.net REMEMBER ED CURRY! http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry
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