default partition scheme without /home - why ?
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Tue Mar 11 12:45:27 UTC 2008
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.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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