Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 14:36:46 +0100 From: "C. P. Ghost" <cpghost@cordula.ws> To: "Thomas Mueller <mueller6727"@bellsouth.net Cc: David Cornejo <dave@dogwood.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /usr/home vs /home Message-ID: <CADGWnjVTWM2D5mmCiVsbwO=SBQhepjYGHn3MKPHTWusqKkcgsg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20111122103043.82377106564A@hub.freebsd.org> References: <CAFnjQbvMRey=zM_1BvjF%2Bs=2sWfYDwFoi_pB7BJiJ9aS9Ud5ag@mail.gmail.com> <20111122080542.5c993efe@zelda.sugioarto.com> <20111122103043.82377106564A@hub.freebsd.org>
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On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 11:30 AM, <"Thomas Mueller <mueller6727"@bellsouth.net> 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/
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