Alex Bochannek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Personally, I prefer the traditional setup with /, /usr. /var, et > al. to be separate file systems.
I have not said anything about /var. It should of course be a separate filesystem. > The benefit being that processes > running amok are somewhat corralled, What do you mean? > backups and restores are easier, Why? > and you have the ability to mount /usr read-only. You can mount root (/) read-only. Almost, at least. Some programs write to /etc but that is, in my opinion, wrong. Fortunately they are quite few in Debian. /Pelle
