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[Jim Popovitch]

Geoffrey wrote:

> By making / a separate partition:
>
> You protect your / from being filled up by logs or stupid users.  
> Makes things a bit easier when backing up individual partitions.
>
> At least put /var /home on different partitions.


A couple of extra points...  I will be the only user on this system.   
It is my laptop, and it won't be running any services (not even sshd).  
Logging, if any, will be a minimum, so I am not worried about filling up 
/var/log.   What I am worried about is any filesystem/mount-point 
overhead, as well as delays associated with moving large files from 
/home to /opt, or elsewhere.    The arguments for separate filesystems 
are very strong when building servers and multi-user workstations, I 
just don't see the same arguments when building laptops for individual use.

-Jim P.