Well at home on your personal box this is might be right, but having home
on a separate partition does make sense if several users are writing data
on /home earlier or later your system will crash because no place is left,
and quotas are nice but if you have a lot of users and most of them don't
really need any place you'll not set them too tight...
same is for /tmp, it happens that people ot programms write to /tmp
/usr/tmp
or /var/tmp and you just forget about it, or programs go mad and produce
continually output and they will never do this to / (becausse they usually
are not permitted) but everybody (everything) can write to tmp's whatever
they want.
regards,
Clemens
On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Shawn McMahon wrote:
>
> I'm curious; what is it that makes /home somehow more secure if it
happens
> to point to a different partition instead of just a different directory?
>
> Either way, it's still /home.
>
> As long as you've got a bootable floppy with fsck on it, I see no reason to
> have more than two partitions:
>
> swap, and /.
>
> Some people recommend swap, / and /usr, but if you do that you have to be
> aware of where other things end up, such as /home, and it's a pain to mess
> around in the middle of install with symlinking /var and /home to /usr/var
> and /usr/home. The average newbie doesn't need to be doing this.
>
>
> I'm running at home like this:
>
> hda contains swap and /boot.
>
> hdc contains /.
>
> It's working peachy keen, and I didn't have to symlink anything.
>
>
>
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