On Thursday, Jun 5, 2003, at 14:34 US/Eastern, Wojciech Puchar wrote:

>> I'm with Graywolf here, on the pro-split-em side.  My reasoning is
>> similar to his:  /usr doesn't get modified often, usually only when=20=

>> new
>> software is installed.  /var gets modified all the time.  It hold the
>> databases (locate, pkg, mysql), the log files, the mail spool (both =
in
>> and out), printer spools... it's one busy little partition.
>>
>> If there is file system corruption, either from a bug or a power=20
>> glitch
>> or whatever, I'd rather only lose the data on /var -- suck though it
>
> in case of one partition you will lose only unwritten data too so no
> problems with /usr.

You're right. I was considering a case of more catastrophic failure.


This just occurred to me: The other reason to do it with multiple=20
partitions is that many "new users" are using free OS like NetBSD to=20
learn how *NIX works.  Doing it in a similar, albeit scaled down,=20
version of a data center machine makes the OS a more valuable learning=20=

tool.

jf
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John Franklin
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