Tim wrote:
On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 17:37 +0000, Andy Green wrote:
Are there any other reasons to have partitions and LVM on boxes with
one storage device and no possibility for internal expansion?
I don't see much point of using LVM on a PC that can't possibly have
more than one hard drive, but partitions do still have their uses. You
can mount certain things using file systems more efficient for the
purpose, you can mount certain things with protective restrictions (such
as noexec, nodev, etc.), and so on...
I guess that's a real benefit if you want to customize your fstab
accordingly. But I also guess few users who have multi partitions are
doing this. I think it is common mainly because it is the orthodoxy
that admins with hair on their chest do it.
BTW I learnt on this list a year or two ago from someone that noexec
can't be understood as generically stopping execution of anything from
that mountpoint and can be a false comfort indeed. Try this:
$ cp /bin/ls .
$ chmod -x ./ls
$ ls -l ./ls
-rw-r--r-- 1 user user 93560 Feb 16 11:01 ./ls
$ ./ls
bash: ./ls: Permission denied
$ /lib/ld-linux.so.2 ./ls
...
/tmp isn't nodev by default either, but you can change that if you were
hardening it all up I suppose. Point taken then, but it is pretty
specialized and maybe not a reason for everyone to get LVM by default.
-Andy
