From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 24 10:13:34 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC2A6106566C for ; Thu, 24 Nov 2011 10:13:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kraduk@gmail.com) Received: from mail-yw0-f54.google.com (mail-yw0-f54.google.com [209.85.213.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67E6B8FC15 for ; Thu, 24 Nov 2011 10:13:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywp17 with SMTP id 17so1201968ywp.13 for ; Thu, 24 Nov 2011 02:13:33 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=YajBFVaShuLnWPrESqp5K3tRaiU8yZ3s0xr+r8xQXoU=; b=lRF39f/WQoM53YWSz1xOuu2ii6Kik+1t6L5VbNgma9wuUrBhYY0KngNI+yWx4L9zG3 Sp6Bqrg/iXYADbOXVg7C7B9Qo8PlzMG1tc45kP9Q/twWiAybBdN33v0K+n+ki99w3Ij5 xyR6B+tSaA2cebjih7XLjMWbXhFL1gAmT8Gag= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.101.45.9 with SMTP id x9mr6115762anj.151.1322127778560; Thu, 24 Nov 2011 01:42:58 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.236.102.164 with HTTP; Thu, 24 Nov 2011 01:42:58 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <20111122080542.5c993efe@zelda.sugioarto.com> <20111122103043.82377106564A@hub.freebsd.org> Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 09:42:58 +0000 Message-ID: From: krad To: "C. P. Ghost" X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 12:06:42 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: David Cornejo , freebsd-current@freebsd.org, "Thomas Mueller List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 10:13:34 -0000 On 22 November 2011 13:36, C. P. Ghost wrote: > On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 11:30 AM, <"Thomas Mueller > wrote: > > But I don't see any advantage to putting /, /usr, and /var on separate > partitions. > > > > Tom > > Regarding separate /usr and /var: the advantage is that you can > keep /usr read-only which is also important for security reasons > since modifying system binaries becomes less easy. > > Furthermore, you can NFS share a read-only /usr among many > similar machines, while /var is a per-machine specific read-write > area. > > -cpghost. > > -- > Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > I always have /var and /tmp on separate file systems than /, but dont normally have a separate /usr, bur I have a /usr/local. I like to keep the /var and /tmp fs separate as they as other are mentioned. Therefore they are more prone to corruption in event of the power failure. Keeping / separate in this case should make the system more likely to reboot. Also it stops application filling up / which can stop you logging into the system (I havent seen this issue for year admittedly) /usr/local is just for tidyness as it keeps base os separate from ports etc I also have /home on a separate as well to stops users filling up root as well. my zfsroot boxes have this setup as well, but i also add a few reservations and quotas.