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 1
/dev/sda1 /boot ext3
noatime,rw,defaults,noauto 0 2
/dev/mapper/anzu_main-usr_lv /usr ext3
noatime,ro,defaults 0 2
/dev/mapper/anzu_main-home_lv /home ext3
noatime,rw,nosuid,nodev 0 2
/dev/mapper/anzu_main-ulocal_lv /usr/local ext3
noatime,rw,nosuid,nodev 0 2
/dev/mapper/anzu_main-var_lv /var ext3
noatime,rw,nosuid 0 2
/dev/mapper/anzu_main-spool_lv /var/spool ext3
noatime,rw,nosuid,nodev 0 2
Hmm. I had a chroot at some point in /var -- which is why it has
no nodev. Time to change.
manoj
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