[ale] Looking for recommendations on LVM + soft Raid on home server

[James Sumners]

If you have a lot of (irresponsible) users, I can agree with that
logic. Thankfully, I don't have to worry about very many people
directly connecting to the system. Most only connect to the services
provided by the system.

On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 09:02, Lightner, Jeff <JLightner at water.com> wrote:
> I disagree with NOT having separate /var, /usr, /home, /tmp etc...
> Users can fill up root by writing huge things to /tmp or /var/tmp,  putting things in /usr/share or /usr/local (including logs).   /var can fill up due to things like yum cache or logs in /var/logs.   Keeping root (with /etc as part of root) separate from these other filesystems helps to keep from corrupting passwd and other files due to a full filesystem.
>
> Oddly enough the reason why I make separate filesystems is the same you gave - disks are cheap so I don't need to try to avoid splitting things up in multiple LVs/filesystems in order to save space root might need someday.


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