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On Tue, 26 Dec 2000 09:26:51 +0800, Jacko <jacko@fastnet.co.uk> wrote:
|Hi,
|
|I have built a new Debian2.2 for my personal website. I am the only
|local user and I can use the whole 9G hard disk. It will run DNS,
|Apache, qmail and mySQL only.
|
|When I install the Debian, I created the root filesystem only:
|/boot 100MB
|/ 8GB
|Swap 128MB x 8 (cuz, I've got 4 x 128MB physical memory)
|
|After I read the "The Linux System Administrators' Guide", it suggest us
|to add the following filesystems /bin, /lib, /etc, /dev, /home etc�
|
|My question is...
|
|Why the book suggests different filesystems instead of one root
|filesystem"/"? (It looks easier to handle one root filesystem?!)
|Which method is works better?
|
|Thanks for helping me. Wish you a Merry Christmas.


And a Merry Xmas from me as well.


On the Filesystem note, it's all a trade off.

Many smaller file systems reduce the risk of a single corruption
destroying all your data, and help prevend a runaway log file (say)
from using up all your disk space.

For a single-user system, I'd recommend putting /home on it own
partition as a minimum (in addition to what you have above) and
/usr/local is a close second.

This is mainly to help during upgrades/reinstalls.

If you have:

/
/boot
/home
/usr/local

Then you can reformat / & /boot during an OS reinstall and not loose
your personal files and localy installed software. Note that I generally
do my OS "upgrades" by doing a clean install of the new version.


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