| gabriel rosenkoetter on Tue, 2 Apr 2002 14:51:15 -0500 |
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On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 02:17:21PM -0500, LeRoy Cressy wrote: > In an office enviroment I would want the workstations with a > separate /home partition while it is always good to have a separate > /var partition for any system connected to the Internet. Having > one humongous partition is good for a system that never directly > connected to the Internet. These arguments don't make sense to me, perhaps partly because you didn't explain them. Here's my take on why I disagree with what you say wrt /home and /var: Why should workstations have a separate /home? Are they not used by approximately one user? I don't even log out of my NetBSD workstation at work, I just run xscreensaver. It's effectively a single user machine. If I want to do a lot of coding or compilation work in my home directory (just because that's the "right" way to do it), I don't want to run up against a small partition. (And I'm more likely to on a workstation, as it's less likely to have a large disk.) As for /var, what has being connected to the Internet to do with anything? I definitely see way more traffic on my WAN than I do from the Internet on my workstation. But precious little of it does anything to touch /var. A workstation's logs are really unlikely to grow to any large extent, and any sane distribution will come with logrotate or newsyslog in root's crontab and configured in a reasonable way. Sure, you'd have to add in settings for any locally-maintained daemons... but why would you even have those on a workstation? -- gabriel rosenkoetter gr@eclipsed.net Attachment:
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