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 4.54) id 1F9kkn-0005Km-Ha for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 15:09:10 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1GF5mng018558; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 15:05:48 GMT Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.de [213.165.64.20]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1GEwirD032394 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 14:58:44 GMT Received: (qmail 22331 invoked by uid 0); 16 Feb 2006 14:58:44 -0000 Received: from 157.247.252.14 by www076.gmx.net with HTTP; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 15:58:44 +0100 (MET) Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 15:58:44 +0100 (MET) From: jarry@gmx.net To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org 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 References: <200602161519.24278.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition? X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-Authenticated: #787166 Message-ID: <30754.1140101924@www076.gmx.net> X-Mailer: WWW-Mail 1.6 (Global Message Exchange) X-Flags: 0001 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 32ca5343-3a67-4585-a7f0-8f8085998c1c X-Archives-Hash: 4a12f7f473b621834d783e38758dc912 "Hemmann, Volker Armin" 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