On 6/10/2011 2:11 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 21:49 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> for single user or >> >> / >> /home >> /media/big -> /home/$user1/big >> /media/big -> /home/$user2/big > > For a single user I switched from / + /home to / only. > For special tasks I add e.g. /music_productions to /mnt or /home. > > The advantage to have / only, including /home is, that you don't need > think that much about allocation of free space. You anyway can do > separated backups. And having tons of individual mounted directories > won't speed up anything or won't have any other advantage. It might be > different for servers or what ever, but for a single user?
Always have a /boot partition with kernel file etc so you can still boot the machine if you roast your / filesystem. Sure, live CDs are handy, but it's more handy if you can boot to a prompt and troubleshoot without inserting a CD. -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4df332be.10...@hardwarefreak.com
