Re: partitioning

Hal MacArgle
2004-01-27T19:16:26Z

OK on the comments received by all.. I'll have to give this more
thought as to whether or not it's for me... Appreciate!!

Hal - in Terra Alta, WV - Slackware GNU/Linux 9.0 (2.4.20)
Utrum Per Hebdomadem Perveniam

On 01-26, Ken Moffat wrote:
> > >
> >
> > Care to comment on the reasons for putting /usr in it's
> > separate partition??
> >
>
> Not particularly, but I'll do my best ;)
>
> > For the many personal and home office work stations wouldn't
> > that be overkill and not within the KISS philosophy??
> >
>
> Yes to overkill. If it's a simple way of making it harder to damage
> things then perhaps it's not outwith the spirit of KISS.
>
> > Just curious. Cheers. <grin>

>
> As far as I understand, the main reason to separate /usr is to do with
> permissions - if it's separate, you can mount it r/o. However, you can
> also mount '/' r/o with (quite a lot of planning and) messing about.
> I'm sure I've read about people mounting an nfs export at /usr, but that
> does assume that all clients are on a similar architecture. My security
> knowledge isn't great. I'm sure I've missed out other advantages.
>
> Ken
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