On 05/15/2015 07:53 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2015-05-16 00:16, Anton Aylward wrote:
On 05/15/2015 05:37 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2015-05-15 23:15, Anton Aylward wrote:
Secondly, why oh why oh why don't you have /var on a separate file system?
I don't. It is not made by default. He said he is not a system administrator
it comes down to this:
Do you want a resilient system that survives perturbations or do you want a fragile one?
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/ ? 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]. At one site I set up automated backups to cartridge tape. Each morning I pulled last night's tape and put in a new one -- by habit, by reflex. The one day there wasn't a new tape in the box! WTF! The departmental 'secretary' used to order a new box each month, but when she left her replacement didn't know about this, it WAS NEVER A DOCUMENTED PROCEDURE! The next day I had a newly bought (on expenses) box of tape and the procedure was now documented and followed! I'm long gone but that process still holds :-) Not everyone has the informal habit, reflex. Many people never look at their logs, never check their disk capacities until something breaks, never check SMART. .... It is in their interests to have a resilient system, one that "errors gracefully" and avoids many of the egregious errors that can occur, for example, by having everything on the root FS rather than having separate /tmp, /usr and so on. That's what this thread was really about, a fragile system because of lack of partitioning. LVM makes adding 'partitions' easy. And yes I've been in the situation where rather than moving /usr/share to /home/user_share and setting up a symlink I created a new LV and moved it there and mounted it. Much cleaner. [1] Like putting on the seat belt when getting in the car. I went to the garage and got in the car just to get something out of the glove compartment. I couldn't reach, the belt was holding me back. I fastened the belt on getting in the completely by reflex, even though I wasn't setting out to drive. Reflex. That I've never been in a collision and never _needed_ the seat belt is irrelevant. Wrote \ / ASCII Ribbon CampaignWrote -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org