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On Mon, 01 Aug 2011 10:22:02 +0200 |
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Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn <chithanh@g.o> wrote: |
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> Samuli Suominen schrieb: |
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> > should think this inverse; make separate partitions for the data |
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> > directories such as /home or /var |
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> > have /usr on / |
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> > so when / goes down, you still keep your data |
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> Putting /home and /var on separate partitions can increase isolation |
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> even further, that is true. |
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> On desktop systems, directories outside /usr and /home contribute not |
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> much to the total disk space used. So if you have one / and one /usr |
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> partition, the total amount of data that would be exposed to |
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> corruption is not much different from having all of /, /home, /usr |
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> and /var separate. |
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On desktop systems, it is common to have random hacks around. Sometimes |
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large amounts of data are in /var, sometimes somewhere in /mnt, |
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sometimes in /home. I don't think that setup is really worth |
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considering deeply. |
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> On servers, it might make sense to keep /var separate depending on |
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> which services write there. |
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BTW is the /srv concept dead already? |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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