Re: why are / and /home the same filesystem?

2022-02-07 Thread Tim via users
On Mon, 2022-02-07 at 14:12 -0800, jdow wrote: > Why bother with defining a separate /home at all? It gives a false > sense of security. There are various different reasons people do partitioning (whether that be home, boot, var, whatever). It's not all about security (or lack of). You might wan

Re: why are / and /home the same filesystem?

2022-02-07 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 2/7/22 14:12, jdow wrote: Ah, fix it so that when the system logs run away you can also destroy user data that has not been written yet. That's... not really how POSIX works.  And most logs on Fedora should be in the journal at this point, has a maximum size. Gd planning. Why bothe

Re: why are / and /home the same filesystem?

2022-02-07 Thread John Mellor
On 2022-02-07 5:39 p.m., Joe Zeff wrote: On 2/7/22 15:12, jdow wrote: Ah, fix it so that when the system logs run away you can also destroy user data that has not been written yet. Gd planning. Why bother with defining a separate /home at all? It gives a false sense of security. Only if

Re: why are / and /home the same filesystem?

2022-02-07 Thread Joe Zeff
On 2/7/22 15:12, jdow wrote: Ah, fix it so that when the system logs run away you can also destroy user data that has not been written yet. Gd planning. Why bother with defining a separate /home at all? It gives a false sense of security. Only if you define it as btrfs. ___

Re: why are / and /home the same filesystem?

2022-02-07 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2022-02-07 at 11:50 -0800, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 2/6/22 08:17, Paolo Galtieri wrote: > > so why are / and /home the same device? > > > To the question of "why," I'd think the answer is in the discussion > held > in the devel@ mailing list linked below. Generally, sharing the > stora

Re: why are / and /home the same filesystem?

2022-02-07 Thread jdow
On 20220207 11:50:12, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 2/6/22 08:17, Paolo Galtieri wrote: so why are / and /home the same device? To the question of "why," I'd think the answer is in the discussion held in the devel@ mailing list linked below. Generally, sharing the storage pool in

Re: why are / and /home the same filesystem?

2022-02-07 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 7 Feb 2022 11:50:12 -0800 Gordon Messmer wrote: > Generally, sharing the storage > pool in order to avoid running out of space in one location when there > was still space left in the pool due to "bad" partitioning choices was > seen as a benefit. Yep, I've been partitioning systems th

Re: why are / and /home the same filesystem?

2022-02-07 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 2/6/22 08:17, Paolo Galtieri wrote: so why are / and /home the same device? To the question of "why," I'd think the answer is in the discussion held in the devel@ mailing list linked below. Generally, sharing the storage pool in order to avoid running out of space in one location when the

Re: why are / and /home the same filesystem?

2022-02-07 Thread Peter Boy
> Am 07.02.2022 um 10:43 schrieb GianPiero Puccioni > : > > On 06/02/2022 23:48, Peter Boy wrote: > about using brtfs: > >> Among the cons is, as your /home grows it minimizes the space for „/„. So it >> can completely block your system (this could not happen with F31 and xfs.) >> But you ca

Re: why are / and /home the same filesystem?

2022-02-07 Thread Peter Boy
> Am 07.02.2022 um 00:00 schrieb Samuel Sieb : > > On 2/6/22 14:48, Peter Boy wrote: >> BTRFS subvolumes are not dedicated volumes as you may have used to in Fedora >> 31. That version used xfs filesystem, where every volume is a separate >> space, not entangeled with any other volume. > > Be

Re: why are / and /home the same filesystem?

2022-02-07 Thread GianPiero Puccioni
On 06/02/2022 23:48, Peter Boy wrote: about using brtfs: Among the cons is, as your /home grows it minimizes the space for „/„. So it can completely block your system (this could not happen with F31 and xfs.) But you can take other group activities, e.g. limit the maximum space for the group /

Acer Chromebook 15

2022-02-07 Thread Michael Hennebry
Is it possible to put fedora on an Acer Chromebook 15? I've been trying to no avail. Google has shown me lots of sets of directions for booting from USB, none of which have worked. I've gotten it to the point that it claims OS checking is off, but then it goes to chrome. Grrr. Should I just throw