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From: "Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn" <chithanh@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Warn users not to do separate /usr partition without proper initramfs in the handbook?
Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2011 08:22:40
Message-Id: 4E36622A.9000200@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Warn users not to do separate /usr partition without proper initramfs in the handbook? by Samuli Suominen
1 Samuli Suominen schrieb:
2 > should think this inverse; make separate partitions for the data
3 > directories such as /home or /var
4 > have /usr on /
5 > so when / goes down, you still keep your data
6
7 Putting /home and /var on separate partitions can increase isolation
8 even further, that is true.
9
10 On desktop systems, directories outside /usr and /home contribute not
11 much to the total disk space used. So if you have one / and one /usr
12 partition, the total amount of data that would be exposed to corruption
13 is not much different from having all of /, /home, /usr and /var
14 separate.
15 On servers, it might make sense to keep /var separate depending on which
16 services write there.
17
18
19 Best regards,
20 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn

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