Re: partitioning

Ken Moffat
2004-01-26T17:16:53Z

On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, Hal MacArgle wrote:

> On 01-26, Ken Moffat wrote:
> >
> > If you're going to separate /usr, and the reasons for doing so probably
> > don't apply to many people here, even 3GB should be too much. Depends,
> > of course, on exactly what you put there, but assuming you don't install
> > a _lot_ of things you aren't going to use then 3GB is more than enough
> > for a _full_ system (except /home).
> >
>
> 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>
>
> Hal - in Terra Alta, WV - Slackware GNU/Linux 9.0 (2.4.20)
> Utrum Per Hebdomadem Perveniam
> .

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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