On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 05:26:47AM +0000, Seb Tennant wrote: > I've read that it is a good idea for the 'root' partition to be small > and bootable, i.e., for it to only include /bin, /dev, /etc, /lib, > /mnt, /root and /sbin. Presumably, as these directories contain > predominantly static files, there is very little chance of a 'root' > partition organised this way ever becoming corrupted and therefore it > is far less likely that you are ever unable to boot into your system, > despite what happens elsewhere.
/usr is not static? Distributing the Installation itself over multiple partitions is pointless. Either you just restore from the Backup or you do a fresh install. That you can boot and have a shell when one or more of your filesystems got lost, doesn't really help you and isn't worth the hassle that / is too small next month or some other stupid thing like this. (I have seen solaris installations with 30 MB / paritions, where you can't install patches because of this...) But it's usefull to have /home or /var on a different disk or at least partition. Christian Leber -- "Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est." (Aurelius Augustinus) Translation: <http://gnuhh.org/work/fsf-europe/augustinus.html> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]