On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 6:06 AM, Anton Aylward <opensuse@antonaylward.com> wrote:
Not only do I consider this a good reason for having a separate /tmp, it makes me very nervous about the BtrFS attitude of the One File System To Rule Them All that is More Efficient If It Uses Subvolumes Instead Of Partitions. I *like* hard boundaries.
Use quotas.
By the standards of many here my view of partitioning, as facilitated by LVM, may seem ridiculous, but it also eases backups (many partitions are under 5G so can slide onto a DVD nicely), lets me try out optimizations and even lets me see how other file systems compare. Well OK, some of that (e.g. RootFS on BtrFS vs ReiserFS vs XFS vs ext4) has more to do with LVM.
On HDD it must be the identical partition to do fs benchmarking. Windows and OS X have a long, long, long history of single filesystem installations. Wayward applications filling up the drive are just not common enough a problem for their companies to use two or more partitions in attempt to avoid OS face planting due to running out of space due to a process gone crazy. This is not merely default, but there isn't even the option in their installer or partition utility to do it any differently. Pointing a backup program to a directory or volume should make zero difference in terms of ease. Arguably any backup program that differs in this regard, or wayward misbehaving programs that fill up all volume space are poorly designed.
Having ~Mail ~Downloads, ~Documents, ~Photographs and ~Music on separate FS not only isolates them for backup, it also isolates them if things go wild elsewhere so I can keep on working.
My dot file in $HOME add up to nearly 3G. WOW! Are there potential runaways there? Possibly. Would it be nice to be able to back them up separately as well? Arguably.
The takeaway here is that partitioning (and being able to unmount and 'protect') even the subdirectories of $HOME can be useful in a number of ways including putting limits on how space can be consumed. Hard partitions are useful.
If, like the OP, I find my /home partition filling, i know for use it is not anything in ~Documents, ~Downloads ... and so forth.
I also know that I can download into ~Downloads without it affecting work I'm doing in ~Documents ... and so forth.
It may seem excessive to some but that's often the way with "safety measures". I *know* that there are whole class of events that I don't have to worry about.
And a whole class of events you do have to worry about - everything that would be a move is a copy+delete event, installation and restore is more complicated, you can't hard link anything, the chance of mount failures goes up. I think it's a completely uncompelling layout. I grant a separate /home makes clean installs easier. Windows and OS X get around this with fairly mature unidimensional installers, long standing standardized layouts and fs hierarchies that they have fairly reliable in place upgrades. -- Chris Murphy -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org