On Tue, Feb 13, 2024 at 4:12 PM Janne Johansson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Den tis 13 feb. 2024 kl 13:40 skrev Odhiambo Washington < > [email protected]>: > > > > Is there a disadvantage to having this layout style where everything is > on > > 1 partition? > > A few. The partitioning scheme allow certain parts of the filesystem > to have different permissions, > > /dev/sd1a on / type ffs (local) > /dev/sd1e on /home type ffs (local, nodev, nosuid) > /dev/sd1d on /usr type ffs (local, nodev) > /dev/sd0a on /usr/local type ffs (local, nodev, wxallowed) > > but also if something decides to log like crazy and fills up /var and > you have /var ( or /var/log ) as a separate partition, the rest of the > system is not affected by it going full and it might be lots easier to > recover from it when the rest of the paths work as expected. > > It's a tradeoff between having to know in advance where data will go > or not, versus being able to prevent some nasty issues that could > occur if you let someone else run code on your machine. > > For a throwaway VM that you can reproduce, it would not matter so > much. For a box you really care about and is meant to run for yeats, > it matters more. > > -- > May the most significant bit of your life be positive. > Hello Janne, Thanks a million for such a nice explanation. Let me now ask Google about those flags. -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254 7 3200 0004/+254 7 2274 3223 In an Internet failure case, the #1 suspect is a constant: DNS. "Oh, the cruft.", egrep -v '^$|^.*#' ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ :-) [How to ask smart questions: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html]
