The main reason for putting /var, /tmp, and portage on their own partitions is to minimize fragmentation on /, especially with a source distro like Gentoo. And yes, Linux does fragment and does require attention, especially with reiserfs, where the only solution is to dump/format/restore.
On Thursday 16 February 2006 09:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > "Hemmann, Volker Armin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > To put everything on its own partition was good, when harddisks were > > 2gb-10gb big. But today it is just a waste of space and time. > > IMHO there still might be advantages to using more partitions, > for example security (you can mount /boot /tmp /home with nodev, > noexec, nosuid, /usr with read-only, etc.), or different quota > settings. But it would be probably more usable for server, less > for workstation... > > Jarry > > -- > Telefonieren Sie schon oder sparen Sie noch? > NEU: GMX Phone_Flat http://www.gmx.net/de/go/telefonie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
