On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 20:02 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 2009-07-08 20:23, Miles Bader wrote:
> [snip]
> >
> >Hmm, my / is 290MB, though /tmp, /var, /boot, and /usr are all separate
> >partitions.
>
> *Why*? IOW, what benefit do you derive in 2009 (as opposed to 1989,
> when disks weren't always large enough to hold it all) from
> splitting these out?
Not that abundance of partitions but even now it does make sense to
mount / ro except for /var and /tmp; only for maintainance / must be
remounted rw.
Regs
Siggy
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