On 2009-07-23 16:22, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
On Mon, Jul 20 2009, Ron Johnson wrote:On 2009-07-20 21:29, Manoj Srivastava wrote:On Sun, Jul 19 2009, 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?Security? /dev/sdb2 / ext3 noatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1Why device names instead of labels or UUIDs?*Shrug*. Been a while, and it has been working form me for years. Why change?
Perfectly valid reason!!
/dev/sda1 /boot ext3 noatime,rw,defaults,noauto 0 2noauto?????Who the hell wants the braindead initramfs mucking around with a working boot system? It also ensures that I have to be actively thinking about modifying my boot process before changes happen.
YAPVR. [snip]
Seems to me that this whole exercise is to ensure that /dev is in it's own partition.Layered security is always better than waiting for the silver bullet all secure mechanism. It is all about increasing the work factor for Mallory.
Bah! *Everyone* knows that there's one simple solution to all problems!!
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