El Sábado 13/02/2016, Valeri Galtsev escribió: > On Sat, February 13, 2016 2:50 pm, John R Pierce wrote: > > On 2/13/2016 12:19 PM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > >> It is interesting to observe how perceptions are changing over time. > >> Decade or two ago we were partitioning small then drives (thus loosing > >> some of the space) just to separate regular users from those places > >> vital > >> for secure and reliable running of the system. Security. There days I > >> bet > >> there will be multiple experts who will bag me to death if I will try to > >> offer any pro partitioning argument. This is just a very interesting > >> (for > >> me) observation. > > > > I still like making /home its own file system, and if I'm running a > > substantial (non-trivial) database server, it also has its own volume, > > quite likely on its own raid. > > John, you made my day! It is so wonderful to know I'm not the only one who > still does this! Well, I though this was standard practice, at least for severs. At work we usually set several partitions (/boot, /, /opt, /var, /var/lib/mysql, /tmp, /home, /home/backup) depending on the use case. For desktops it's always /boot, / and /home. Cheers, -- Ricardo J. Barberis Usuario Linux Nº 250625: http://counter.li.org/ Usuario LFS Nº 5121: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ Senior SysAdmin / IT Architect - www.DonWeb.com