-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 2015-05-16 02:53, Anton Aylward wrote:
On 05/15/2015 07:53 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Mine has survived over a decade with no /var partition. None of my systems has it. :-)
... And /tmp ? /usr? Have you divided up /home/carlos/ ?
Not /tmp. /usr yes, for two reasons: one, to grow system space, because I don't use LVM. Two, because not only is a different partition, but also a different hard disk, which makes the overall system faster, because Linux can paralelize disk operations — since many years: it was explained in the SuSE (paper) administration or reference book, since I first saw it on version 5 or 6 something. And yes, I do have several other partitions, for different uses, like /usr/local, /opt... But not /var, nor /tmp :-p (Yes, I have set up /tmp on sites I prepared. No reason to do the same at home)
Part of the reason things have gone well for you is that you are otherwise attentive. For what I consider "my" system, so am I. But many of the systems I set up I can't guarantee I will be there for their lifetimes. Many people are more concerned with the "appreciations" and don't want to spend much time doing the kind of "sysadmin stuff" that you and I an some others here consider commonplace and reflex so much that we don't think about it[1].
But most people are not professionals, but simply people that happen to use computers. Many openSUSE users reformat their systems, reinstalling it, on each release. It doesn't matter thus, to calculate for decades of resilience. And it is not necessary, either, to have several partitions to have a durable system. My laptop, for instance, has only swap boot, root, and home, formatted about 4 or 5 years ago. No problems. Other distributions use only swap and root, no home. It just works.
I'm long gone but that process still holds :-)
Yes. But you are a professional. You do not need to be that methodical for the personal computer of most people :-) - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" (Minas Tirith)) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAlVX44QACgkQja8UbcUWM1xNQwEAn4l/IYWp8MOcR4N6pYN4xax9 h0LxXp8/M0nCrdbHM2IA/jlAsOlCSGG90mbNwyFKJDtx0BUvf1IpGcqMO1VvUg5J =iTpr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org