On Sat, 2011-06-11 at 04:17 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > 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.
Plausible. I've got a multi-boot, so if one Linux fails, I can boot another to repair it. I don't like to insert a CD either :). Ralf -- 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/1307784157.2378.75.camel@debian
