<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Mar 20, 2012, at 11:43 AM, Robert wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div><blockquote type="cite">I disagree with NOT having separate /var, /usr, /home, /tmp etc...<br></blockquote><br>I've usually broken these out too.. And was surprised to find that Fedora 16<br>spits out a warning if you have /usr on it's own partition. The seems to be<br>something to do with the new systemd, which manages the init scripts.<br><br><a href="http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/separate-usr-is-broken">http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/separate-usr-is-broken</a><br>_______________________________________________<br>Ale mailing list<br>Ale@ale.org<br>http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale<br>See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at<br>http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo</div></blockquote></div><div><br></div>This may be mildly unrelated, however, does anyone have a link to a good read on WHY it's recommended that certain directories be on different partitions? I've seen a lot of talk about this and really never understood the theory behind why it's done one way vs. another.<div><br><div>
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