Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 14:06:12 +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote: > >> That's not advisable. I'd strongly suggest to create >> filesystems for /boot, swap, /home, /opt, /usr, /var >> and / (of course). This way you're more flexible >> and also a bit safer (not such a high risk of running >> out of space on /). > > But far more chance of running out of space on /usr, /var or /opt while
Not really. And even if so - who cares? Make the fs larger, and you're set. Also, if those fs run out of space, it's not a DoS. > one of the others has plenty free. Well, no, since it's also bad advice to have one with plenty free :) > I prefer to have these three on the > same partition for a desktop, I don't. Everything on its own filesystem. I mean, why not? Resizing, and especially extending, is so very easy. Alexander Skwar -- BOFH Excuse #126: it has Intel Inside -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
