[CentOS] heads up: /boot space on kernel upgrade

Sat Feb 13 20:50:30 UTC 2016
John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com>

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.



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john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz