On Sun, 2013-06-23 at 14:38 -0500, Kent West wrote: > 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.
That's a good argument to separate /home from / even for some home machines, but usually a separation has got the disadvantage that disk space is less good allocated and the additional security is minimal, since nobody has got write access to /, but root and if somebody gets root privileges, it's also possible to remount / rw. -- 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/1372018542.1619.57.camel@archlinux
