On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 09:08:20AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Friday December 21 2007 08:56:46 Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 03:27:33PM +1100, Owen Townend wrote: > > > On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 20:29 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > On Thursday December 20 2007 15:48:19 Alex Samad wrote: > > > > > I have allocated 10G to my root partition in an effort to > > > > > kiss the system. > > > > > > > > Kiss the system????? > > > > > > > > > So I have farmed of /home and /var/log and I > > > > > am about to do /usr/local nothing really in here that i > > > > > really need on the root partition > > > > > > > > > > My question is around /usr/share should/could I move this > > > > > of to another partition ? > > > > > > > > > > my rootfs is on a raid1 native (HD ) partition, > > > > > everything else is on lvm partitions My aim for a simple root fs is when i have to boot with init=/bin/bash, which I have had to do previously. I don't want to have to wade through lvm and mdm (my lvm sits on top of raid) to get access to the base tools. > > > > > > > > /home should *always* be on it's own partition. /var/log > > > > should be on it's own partition if this is a server that > > > > does more than serve MP3s to the other PCs in your house. > > > > Given the size of modern disks, I see no reason to move > > > > /usr out of the root partition. My only unfortunate situation is that I have only 10G for /, and I am starting to feel the pinch. It has lasted me for 8 years > > > > > > kiss = keep it simple, stupid > > > > > > It's a philosophy whereby complexity for the sake of it is > > > frowned upon. > > > > Splitting up the Filesystem isn't complexity for complexity's > > sake, it has good historical precedence. > > Sure: HDDs used to be tiny. You *needed* to split trees across > multiple devices, and RAID controllers were *really* expensive. My main reason for splitting is space, all my subgroupings (/home/alex, /home/X?) allow that user to have all their space, fill it up and not have to worry I am not going to have any space left for incoming mail. Specially with multimedia editing, 1-2G hear and another copy their and one or 2 more copies and you can take up a lot of space. > > > Granted that with > > Debian's single-user mode mounting all the filesystems and > > having some difficulty if they don't makes things less clear. > > There can be some security benefits depending on what mount > > options you use for which filesystems. Eg, nodev for > > everything but /, ro for /usr, perhaps noatime for /usr. If > > some run-away process starts writing to disk, and it is running > > as root, it can fill up a filesystem. Better that this be > > /home, /var, or even /usr than /. > > The real reason that /home should always be on it's own partition > is *upgrading*. If you re-install from scratch, having /home > in / will destroy it. A separate /home retains the data. > (Unless the installer is brain-dead.) > > And while my home machine's /var/log is in /, I did mention that > on a production server it can be wise. I think once you have been bitten by a full / because /var/log is filling up you never place /var/log on root > > > Splitting things up is also useful if you have more than one > > box and you want to share some. Granted, this is less useful > > for /usr in Debian where everything is pre-packaged than if you > > are compiling. > > > > Doug. > > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Ron Johnson, Jr. > Jefferson, LA USA > > "Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an > excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a > conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." > John W. Gardner Thanks for all the comments
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