On 2009-07-23 16:22, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
On Mon, Jul 20 2009, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 2009-07-20 21:29, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
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
Why device names instead of labels or UUIDs?
*Shrug*. Been a while, and it has been working form me for
years. Why change?
Perfectly valid reason!!
/dev/sda1 /boot ext3
noatime,rw,defaults,noauto 0 2
noauto?????
Who the hell wants the braindead initramfs mucking around with a
working boot system? It also ensures that I have to be actively
thinking about modifying my boot process before changes happen.
YAPVR.
[snip]
Seems to me that this whole exercise is to ensure that /dev is in it's
own partition.
Layered security is always better than waiting for the silver
bullet all secure mechanism. It is all about increasing the work factor
for Mallory.
Bah! *Everyone* knows that there's one simple solution to all
problems!!
--
Scooty Puff, Sr
The Doom-Bringer
--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
