Strategy for /tmp and /home Partitioning

[Marcin Struzak]

[...snip...]
> Well, you have a passion for partitions that I do not have.
> Partitions have existence due to two things
> (1) limited addressing ability in the BIOS
> (2) desire to run multiple OS on the same disc

Not true, partitions' foremost reson to exist is the necessity to separate 
parts of the filesystem that grow at different rates and that are of 
different criticality to the system; on a server /var is separate from /, so 
that if your print spool queue goes bananas and fills up the entire 
disk-space (in its partition), it does not affect the rest of the system. 
You can set-up user quotas to limit the growth of /home, but on a large 
network with many users /home would certainly be mounted separately from a 
volume manager that can be grown on-the-fly.

I thought you did say before, that you don't want the CD images from /tmp to 
use up space in /.  That's why you are moving it off to a different 
partition.  Not because of limited BIOS addressability, which, btw, is only 
important for /boot (and that's also why /boot is usually in its own 
partition); the kernel's addressing capability is totally independent.

--Marcin