On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 01:40:53PM -0700, Master O Planets wrote:
> I am preparing to install mandrake 8.2 without windows as a dual boot OS.
>
> What is the value of using an install, with user, creating a user partition.
> I'm going to use it.
creating separate partitions has pros and cons. I use many partitions
on systems when I'm about 95% sure I know what the size of each partition
will be throughout the life of the installation, and I know why I want
the partition. Otherwise, on Linux, I only make a small /boot and put
everything else on the same partition, because far too many times I've run
out of space at inopportune times.
Some of the benefits of separate partitions could be:
separation of data
You have a separate /home partition where you run a program that
hoses /home, but you don't need to reinstall, because only /home
is hosed.
mount options
You may wish to make a filesystem readonly, or not allow SUID programs
or device files, but you can't do that to the whole system.
for example:
$ uname -a
OpenBSD funk 3.2 GENERIC#0 i386
$ df -h | grep wd0
/dev/wd0a 48M 30M 16M 65% /
/dev/wd0d 193M 155M 28M 85% /usr
/dev/wd0e 169M 104M 57M 65% /usr/X11R6
/dev/wd0f 1.1G 483M 620M 44% /usr/local
/dev/wd0g 518M 442M 50M 90% /usr/src
/dev/wd0h 431M 330M 79M 81% /usr/XF4
/dev/wd0i 88M 54M 29M 65% /usr/ports
/dev/wd0j 421M 290M 110M 73% /usr/obj
/dev/wd0k 435M 252M 161M 61% /usr/XF4BLD
/dev/wd0l 484M 56M 404M 12% /var
/dev/wd0m 242M 371K 230M 0% /tmp
/dev/wd0n 2.1G 483M 1.5G 23% /sandbox
/dev/wd0o 2.4G 4.0K 2.2G 0% /pub
/dev/wd0p 5.0G 683M 4.1G 14% /home
$ grep wd0 /etc/fstab
/dev/wd0a / ffs rw,softdep 1 1
/dev/wd0d /usr ffs ro,nodev,softdep 1 2
/dev/wd0e /usr/X11R6 ffs ro,nodev,softdep 1 2
/dev/wd0f /usr/local ffs ro,nodev,softdep 1 2
/dev/wd0g /usr/src ffs rw,nodev,nosuid,softdep 1 2
/dev/wd0h /usr/XF4 ffs rw,nodev,nosuid,softdep 1 2
/dev/wd0i /usr/ports ffs rw,nodev,nosuid,softdep 1 2
/dev/wd0j /usr/obj ffs rw,nodev,nosuid,softdep 1 2
/dev/wd0k /usr/XF4BLD ffs rw,nodev,nosuid,softdep 1 2
/dev/wd0l /var ffs rw,nodev,nosuid,softdep 1 2
/dev/wd0m /tmp ffs rw,nodev,nosuid,softdep 1 2
/dev/wd0n /sandbox ffs rw,nodev,nosuid,softdep 1 2
/dev/wd0o /pub ffs rw,nodev,nosuid,softdep 1 2
/dev/wd0p /home ffs rw,nodev,nosuid,softdep 1 2
This is probably a little overboard though.
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