On 04/08/2015 03:26 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:
When one installs openSUSE, the installation process gives you the option of creating '/' and '/home' directories (the swap partition is not really mentioned in the choice as I remember).
This means that all the "good stuff" is sitting in '/' when oS is installed.
Yes or No to the above last paragraph?
I said NO and I meant NO. NO means NO. To coin a phrase :-) When one installs openSUSE the installation process gives you the option of creating .... *any number of partitions*
And as a normal, standard, sane, user of openSUSE I do not go about bothering about all the /bin and the /lib and the /usr/local and the /usr/bin and the /usr/lib s*** you mention above.
As a normal, standard, sane use of openSUSE ... who is a careful and diligent computer user who make sure he backs up his work, I partition my system for robustness, ease of backup and ease of restore. This involves partitioning along functional lines. Once upon a time UNIX didn't have /home. Its introduction was a goo innovation! Everything to do with my web server is on /srv. That is a functional division. OK, so if you don't have a a web server you won't care Local packages, Xmind, freemind, scrivener and the like end up in /opt I want to keep those, maybe move them when I get new h/w and don't want them zapped when / gets reformatted in a new installation. That justifies a functional division. OK, so if you never install custom stiff you won't care There are quite a number of reasons, many of them security (and not just hack-related but also dealing with containment) related that justify having a separate /tmp. You may have enough memory to make this a tmpfs :-) I exclude /tmp from my backups very simply by having it as a separate partition. Or you may not care. Even under /home I have mounted partitions. - My Documents - My Music - My Photographs It makes space management and backups easier to manage. Part of my backup strategy is to have (data) partitions that are under 5G so they can fit on a DVD. Regular readers will recall that I use LVM so more partitions - aka logical volumes - are easy for me, as are taking snapshots and making backups from the snapshots while 'live work' continues. This has all to do with planning and a strategic attitude towards disk management. Very little of *MY* good stuff lives on the ROOT file system. So when I said NO I meant NO. Of course you may about care about such matters as backups and restore, about making disk management easier. You may not care. I came to all this though unpleasant occurrences, inadequate backups, failed media and more. Call it paranoid: I now expect things to go wrong so I adopt a strategy to try and minimise the impact and make it more manageable. When one installs openSUSE the installation process gives you the option of creating .... *any number of partitions* I take that option. I take that option based on experience and prudence. Because I CARE ABOUT MY DATA. As far as I am concerned, the "Good Stuff" is the stuff I have created or purchased. So NO, I don't think the good stuff should be on the root partition when installing. -- A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org