On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 8:31 PM, Mark Allums<[email protected]> wrote: > Protection by isolaton, partly.
I do the same thing. Maybe it's just superstition, but it's fairly rare to lose a whole hard drive, but fairly common to corrupt a filesystem. Such corruption usually happens when you (intentionally) write to a filesystem. It could happen otherwise, because of some wildly buggy kernel code writing outside the proper partition, but I would expect that to be rare. So if you have separate filesystems, /tmp, /var and /home are likely to get corrupted, but /boot and / aren't so likely. In the event of this kind of corruption, you should still be able to boot. Don Quixote -- Don Quixote de la Mancha [email protected] http://www.dulcineatech.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
