Garrett Cooper writes:
> One good reason I can think of is to partition (not the tech
> definition but the traditional definition, "to divide")
> filesystems such that if one person fills up "/", it won't cause
> a program that needs to write to "/var" or "/tmp" problems, which
> in the case of "/var" can bring down entire systems and
> infrastructures (happened before where I was working as IT when a
> CUPS server ran out of space on /var).
> Other than that.. not really sure. Maybe some of the older
> guard on the list know why.
N) Dump - the preferred beckup method - works at the partition
level. Sure, you can flag files and directories "nodump" using
chflags ... but do you really want to manage that given modern
disk sizes?
Robert Huff
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