[ale] partitioning and /usr [was Re: Looking for recommendations on LVM + soft Raid on home server]

[Lightner, Jeff]

Like everything else its opinion based.   Mine is based on having seen many things fill up / when NOT in separate partitions and causing issues.   By breaking things out I can easily monitor the various filesystems for when they are getting full and avoid the risk of corruption to key files that I’ve seen occur when / has gotten full.

You need to read the rest of the thread as I went into some detail as to why I split out certain filesystems and others posted about why /usr being separate going forward might be (or might not be) a bad idea.






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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Ted W
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2012 9:12 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] partitioning and /usr [was Re: Looking for recommendations on LVM + soft Raid on home server]

On Mar 20, 2012, at 11:43 AM, Robert wrote:
I disagree with NOT having separate /var, /usr, /home, /tmp etc...

I've usually broken these out too.. And was surprised to find that Fedora 16
spits out a warning if you have /usr on it's own partition. The seems to be
something to do with the new systemd, which manages the init scripts.

http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/separate-usr-is-broken
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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.

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