Whit Blauvelt wrote: > On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 02:29:32PM -0400, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > >> And as others have said, /home, and maybe /opt, should *always* be other >> drives, or at least other partitions.... > > Kind of makes you wonder why RH's default install is to shove everything > but boot into one partition these days, doesn't it? In trying to make > everything immune from the most clueless users - who might (horrors) make > a partition too small - RH defaults to something other than time-honored > old-school best practices. Yeah, I never accept the defaults. But I'm not Very, dare I say it?, Windows-ish. On the other hand, for an enterprise O/S, I would sorta-kinda assume that /home was being NFS-mounted. Just about everywhere I've worked, it is. <snip> mark