From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hal MacArgle Subject: Re: partitioning Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 14:16:26 -0500 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20040127191626.GA603@lnx2.w8mch.ampr.org> References: <200401252137.39975.wheds8@ms66.hinet.net> <20040126150458.GA559@lnx2.w8mch.ampr.org> Reply-To: haltec@kvinet.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org 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. > > 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 > -- > This is a job for Riviera Kid! > - - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs