On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 03:27:33PM +1100, Owen Townend wrote: > On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 20:29 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Thursday December 20 2007 15:48:19 Alex Samad wrote: > > > > > > I have allocated 10G to my root partition in an effort to kiss > > > the system. > > > > Kiss the system????? > > > > > So I have farmed of /home and /var/log and I am > > > about to do /usr/local nothing really in here that i really > > > need on the root partition > > > > > > My question is around /usr/share should/could I move this of to > > > another partition ? > > > > > > my rootfs is on a raid1 native (HD ) partition, everything else > > > is on lvm partitions > > > > /home should *always* be on it's own partition. /var/log should > > be on it's own partition if this is a server that does more than > > serve MP3s to the other PCs in your house. Given the size of > > modern disks, I see no reason to move /usr out of the root > > partition. > > > > kiss = keep it simple, stupid > > It's a philosophy whereby complexity for the sake of it is frowned > upon. >
Splitting up the Filesystem isn't complexity for complexity's sake, it has good historical precedence. Granted that with Debian's single-user mode mounting all the filesystems and having some difficulty if they don't makes things less clear. There can be some security benefits depending on what mount options you use for which filesystems. Eg, nodev for everything but /, ro for /usr, perhaps noatime for /usr. If some run-away process starts writing to disk, and it is running as root, it can fill up a filesystem. Better that this be /home, /var, or even /usr than /. Splitting things up is also useful if you have more than one box and you want to share some. Granted, this is less useful for /usr in Debian where everything is pre-packaged than if you are compiling. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
