On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 21:24, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 at 01:28 GMT, Greg Folkert penned: > > > > / and /var are machine critical. Let us remember I come from Huge > > Enterprise setups. Let's just suppose You are a developer writing a > > PL/SQL 300-way innerjoin. Those temporary files get written to /tmp. > > > > For those of us running non-huge-enterprise setups, the effort involved > in having that many separate partitions/drives may not be worth it. I > still split things up, but not as finely as you do. I call it habit, then. BUT, I also discover I can move things around migrating off a "going bad disk" much easier. Seldom do I lose things due to a bad disk... or even a bad kernel. Or a bad piece of hardware... So far, it has been fire at the company... and they didn't believe in Off-site storage because they had a fire-proof safe that could with stand 36 hours of 1400 Degree heat. Well it dunnah matter when you leave the SAFE DOOR OPEN!!!! But oh well... preferences are preferences. -- greg, greg@gregfolkert.net REMEMBER ED CURRY! http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry
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