Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 17:06:01 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Jud <judmarc@fastmail.fm> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Partitioning advice (/usr and /home) Message-ID: <20030915160601.GA28119@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20030915123015.2434A79BD9@smtp.us2.messagingengine.com> References: <000401c37b74$003e94f0$0200a8c0@tabby> <20030915123015.2434A79BD9@smtp.us2.messagingengine.com>
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On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 08:30:15AM -0400, Jud wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 12:27:37 +0200, "Michael Vondung"
> <michael@vcommunities.net> said:
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> > Backup matters aside, is there a significant advantage of having a
> > separate
> > /home partition at all? If not, just skipping /home and using 70GB for
> > /usr
> > (including /usr/home) might be the most practical and flexible approach?
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> No significant advantage to a separate partition that I know of. The
> primary disadvantage of too much partitioning, running out of room,
> doesn't seem to apply here either. Looks like it's just whatever you
> prefer.
Quite a few people find it advantageous to be able to mount /home
nosuid or even noexec; doing the same on the /usr partition would
render a machine practically unusable. But, generally for home
systems where the owner is the sole user or all users are trusted,
this isn't a problem.
Cheers,
Matthew
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