[ale] Basic configuration advice needed.

[Jim Popovitch]

I'm curious as to how that protects root?  I've often wondered the same.

----- Original Message -----
 From: Wandered Inn <esoteric at denali.atlnet.com>
To: Quinton McCombs <quintonm at bellsouth.net>
Cc: <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 24, 1999 9:58 PM
Subject: Re: [ale] Basic configuration advice needed.


> Quinton McCombs wrote:
> >
> > Although I am not new to Unix, I am new to the administration side of a
> > Unix box.  I was wondering if I could get some help on partitioning with
> > Linux (RedHat 5.2 to be specific).
> >
> > I have seen that on most Unix systems, the admin will mount the /var,
/etc,
> > /, and perhaps a few others in separate partitions even though they all
> > reside on the same physical drive.  Is this only to prevent file sizes
in
> > /var (for example) from filling up the root file system?   Or is this
also
> > done for performance reasons?
>
> Protecting root is the primary reason.  There may be others, none I can
> think of at this time.  I don't know of any performance gains by doing
> it.
>
>
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