Benny Amorsen wrote:
>>> What about a separate /usr, or a separate /var? These
can both be
>>> quite beneficial,
>> What are the benefits of separate /usr and /var? I can think of two:
>> 1) one partition getting full doesn't affect the rest of the system
>> 2) hard links aren't possible across partitions
>>
>> Are there others? Disk quota could help with 1), and is 2) really a
>> great benefit on the desktop?
> The big one is that when you reinstall (which every fedora user should
> have done 8 times already with no end in sight), you can tell the
> installer not to format your /home partition and keep your own data.
I haven't actually tried reinstalling. My current laptop was installed
around FC3.
And is the reason for that because you didn't want to lose your own work
in /home?
Anyway, I was talking about /usr and /var, not about /home.
/var can have substantial write activity in some scenarios (busy mail or
database server, or anything with a lot of logging) and it can improve
performance to put it on a separate disk drive (not just a separate
partition) to eliminate head contention with other work. But this
wouldn't apply to a typical single-user workstation setup. There's not
much reason for /usr to be separate from anything else these days except
that in theory you can mount it read-only or nfs-mount it, sharing among
identical machines.
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