On 2017-04-09 15:07, Anton Aylward wrote:
On 09/04/17 08:09 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Separating /usr/local may have a different reason, namely protecting it from being formatted on upgrades.
There are a few other things under /usr that you may want to protect against being overwritten by upgrades. It's al YMMV
For some idiot reason the default is to put the MySQL database there!
Not that I know. It goes under /var. To /var/lib/mysql, that's where i have it and I didn't place it there.
Another reason is splitting filesystems to different disks because it may speed up access.
I don't know about access in general, but FSCK is an O-Squared and it can be parallelized.
Not fsck, but plain file access. It was mentioned in the old SUSE paper admin book. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)