On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 11:30 AM, <"Thomas Mueller <mueller6727"_at_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/Received on Tue Nov 22 2011 - 12:36:47 UTC
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