Dr. Werner Fink said the following on 06/20/2011 10:41 AM:
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 10:21:43AM -0400, Ken Schneider - openSUSE wrote:
Hmmm, I'm not speaking about my personal system setup. On my own privat system I've /, /var, /tmp, /boot, and /home on different partitions, that is / and /boot on a 64G SSD and the rest on a 1TB SATA III.
The only directories I see as being beneficial on a separate partition are the "tmp" directories which can fill a drive rather quickly if not watched.
Again, this is also you're personal setup just as my personal setup ... but IMHO we should like not to ignore other setups.
There are good security reasons or having /tmp as a separate FS, like mounting it noexec,nosuid,nodev I can make a good case that the same should apply to other file systems, quite apart from issues of manageability. I have ~/Documents and ~/Music There is absolutely no reason that there should be devices or setUID files there. I try to practice safe browsing etc, but as far as I'm concerned the fewer places that executables can reside and setuid in particular, the better. I'm not perfect, I might make a mistake. So I put in controls to try an catch errors-and-omissions as well as any malware or Trojans. I don't claim this is perfect, but it helps. I also like to keep my FS small when possible. Nothing is crash-proof, and FSCK isn't O(n) for all file systems, even those that have journals. My backups end up on CDs and DVDs. Another reason to keep file systems small. I also have smoke alarms in my house and lock the doors when I leave. These are all reasonable, prudent measures that are not difficult. -- The only reason to give a speech is to change the world. - John F. Kennedy -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org