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Article #56Re: root filesystem v. different directories
From: Zebee Johnstone
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2000 01:48
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2000 01:48
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In aus.computers.linux on Tue, 26 Dec 2000 09:26:51 +0800 Jacko <jacko@fastnet.co.uk> wrote: > >Why the book suggests different filesystems instead of one root >filesystem"/"? (It looks easier to handle one root filesystem?!) >Which method is works better? Long agp when disks were small, separate filessystems were all you could do. There is another good reason to have /home and maybe /usr/local separate: upgrade time. You can nuke the current installation without nuking your site specific information, without nuking your homedir and the odds and sods you have installed. Another reason for having /var separate is so that logs can't grow so hoge they jam your root filesystem. Not a real problem on today's huge disks, but a separate /var can just bugger itself *and* you might catch the problem before it gets really big. For a home system I usually have / and /home, for a work system I usually have / /var and /data. all the big stuff - websites and backups and databases - lives on /data. Zebee
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