On 17/12/2012 14:40, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > /var sounds right but if /usr is still huge it may annoy some (like > apt can) with smaller drives who now need lots of free space for new > programs in both /usr and /var. Of course there is LVM.
Changing our defaults is unlikely to force users to change their settings. > On OpenBSD the Auto partition map suggests /usr/ports /usr/src as > seperate partitions as long as you have a fair amount of space. It > possibly even suggests a seperate obj partition. The benefit being you > can mkfs/newfs much quicker than deleting many many files. Security (DAC > permission avoidance) and nuking more than what you wanted obviously > needs consideration for that kind of function. Honestly I would never take what OpenBSD does to face value. But in general this is a call for users — myself I have been keeping them split on the tinderbox host but merged into the rootfs for the laptops. -- Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes flamee...@flameeyes.eu — http://blog.flameeyes.eu/
