Apparently, though unproven, at 20:19 on Tuesday 02 November 2010, Volker Armin Hemmann did opine thusly:
> On Tuesday 02 November 2010, Stroller wrote: > > On 2/11/2010, at 10:46am, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > ... > > > hard links will only work if /etc/portage and /var/lib/portage are on > > > the same filesystem. Frequently, they are not. > > > > For small values of frequently. > > > > Stroller. > > for every sane system out there. > > /var is a candidate for surprisingly filling up / to 100% so it is a smart > and sane choice to put it on its own partition where damage will be > reduced to some log files or an aborted emerge. You're both right, but for different reasons. It'd done less often on a laptop or personal machine than on a server for instance. And on embedded stuff, almost never. Example: Any junior of mine who doesn't make /var separate is liable to be served his own testicles for dinner, and they know it. But my laptop is one big filesystem. One case definitely needs it, the other one doesn't really. You're probably looking at the same question from entirely different needs and viewpoints. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
