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?
Protection by isolaton, partly. Mark Allums