On Mon, February 15, 2016 1:00 pm, Ricardo J. Barberis wrote: > 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. > It is so great to hear that! I was shushed a few times by modern experts - I bet on this list too - about following ancient practices and having more than just / partition... so I felt myself as a relic dinosaur, and just kept doing it and kept quiet about that. It nice to be back in a good big company of other like myself ;-) Valeri ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++