From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HlrTJ-0000Lm-2J for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 09 May 2007 19:05:09 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l49J3cWd002680; Wed, 9 May 2007 19:03:38 GMT Received: from mail.ilievnet.com ([84.21.204.200]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l49Isa9D022146 for ; Wed, 9 May 2007 18:54:36 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.ilievnet.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6924C8028D for ; Wed, 9 May 2007 21:54:36 +0300 (EEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new 2.4.1 (20060508) at ilievnet.com Received: from mail.ilievnet.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.ilievnet.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id d7etek5MLSfg for ; Wed, 9 May 2007 21:54:30 +0300 (EEST) Received: from ilievnet.com (ns.ilievnet.com [10.0.1.11]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: danny@ilievnet.com) by mail.ilievnet.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E0FC8028C for ; Wed, 9 May 2007 21:54:30 +0300 (EEST) Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 21:54:26 +0300 From: Daniel Iliev To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Separate /usr [was: Clock is way off] In-Reply-To: <200705091953.08629.benno.schulenberg@gmail.com> References: <49bf44f10705081656s776f28f5kbe497a5326107c2f@mail.gmail.com> <4641FF41.7020000@exceedtech.net> <20070509182835.4c33a0f2@hactar.digimed.co.uk> <200705091953.08629.benno.schulenberg@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.9; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20070509185430.3E0FC8028C@mail.ilievnet.com> X-Archives-Salt: ad787f04-155b-48dc-aab8-d39b0365a849 X-Archives-Hash: 0fcc8b09fd0c8e966e601ed4f95b020b On Wed, 09 May 2007 19:53:08 +0200 Benno Schulenberg wrote: > > Are there (still) people who have /usr on a separate partition? > And if so, why? > Yes, I'm one of those. Some say it gives performance boost (I'm not sure about it), but more importantly it gives (partial) protection from file system damage. How come? The partitions with most frequent writes are those containing /var /home and /tmp. In case of power failure or system lock-up the chances are better that a file system not taking writes at the moment would survive the crash. Following this logic and since /usr contains most of the programs and /bin & /sbin contain most of the basic OS, those should reside on partitions with rare writes. -- Best regards, Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list