On 6/23/13 12:46 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sat, 2013-06-22 at 22:56 -0400, Doug wrote: >> / and /home and /swap. > It usually makes no sense to have it on separated partitions. > > > There are good reasons to have separate partitions, although they are generally less valuable for single-user home machines.
For example, you can mount your / directory read-only, which provides some extra security to the system. Putting /var on a separate partition could keep your system running in the event of a rogue app filling up your /var partition with temporary files. Etc. Like I said, it might "make no sense" on a home machine, in comparison to the trade-offs, but sometimes separate partitions make sense. -- Kent -- 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/51c74ead.6060...@acu.edu
