Benny Amorsen wrote:
What about a separate /usr, or a separate /var? These can both be
quite beneficial,
What are the benefits of separate /usr and /var? I can think of two:
1) one partition getting full doesn't affect the rest of the system
2) hard links aren't possible across partitions
Are there others? Disk quota could help with 1), and is 2) really a
great benefit on the desktop?
The big one is that when you reinstall (which every fedora user should
have done 8 times already with no end in sight), you can tell the
installer not to format your /home partition and keep your own data.
I haven't actually tried reinstalling. My current laptop was installed
around FC3.
And is the reason for that because you didn't want to lose your own work
in /home?
Anyway, I was talking about /usr and /var, not about /home.
/var can have substantial write activity in some scenarios (busy mail or
database server, or anything with a lot of logging) and it can improve
performance to put it on a separate disk drive (not just a separate
partition) to eliminate head contention with other work. But this
wouldn't apply to a typical single-user workstation setup. There's not
much reason for /usr to be separate from anything else these days except
that in theory you can mount it read-only or nfs-mount it, sharing among
identical machines.
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