On Thu, November 19, 2015 4:49 pm, Devin Reade wrote:
--On Thursday, November 19, 2015 11:54:19 AM -0700 Warren Young wyml@etr-usa.com wrote:
?Twas *progress* that made it so, specifically the fact that even a throwaway USB key has enough space to hold the complete OS on it these days.
For the record, size of the disk was never the original motivation for keeping / separate, at least within my memory; it was to minimize the amount of disk space that needed to be fsck'd before bringing the system to single user mode without needing to revert to "rescue media"
Not only. Separation of / /var /usr /home (/var/mail, ...) also was a protection from local user [accidental] denial of service attack by preventing him from filling up or running out of inodes these filesystems.
Valeri
(at that time, the 125MB tape on which the OS was shipped). Even in the days of SunOS 3 (that's SunOS, not Solaris) I was installing the entire OS on one physical drive, partitioned. Sure, NFS and USENET servers had many drives, but most machines were single drives.
Beyond that, I don't really want to get into a flame war on stuff that has been hashed through before.
The main message is that while CentOS 6 and before *could* have / and /usr on different filesystems, don't do it with CentOS 7 per https://access.redhat.com/solutions/53005 (paywalled). TL;DR: you'll have trouble booting some configurations including those using iSCSI.
Devin
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