3 ms·
On a similar note: just the other day I was thinking about how the Unixy systems I used 20+ years ago used to nudge/push you toward creating several actual part
by glhaynes 9mo ago
On a similar note: just the other day I was thinking about how the Unixy systems I used 20+ years ago used to nudge/push you toward creating several actual partitions during installation. Maybe /, /usr, swap… maybe one or two more? IIRC, I think some of the BSDs, at least, maybe still do? Always seemed weird and suboptimal to me for most installations, but I remember being told by graybeards at the time that it was the Right Way.
- calvinmorrison 9mo agostill makes sense to prevent overruns right? IE /home/ cant drop the whole system just cause you torrented too many debian ISOs and blew out your disk. same for /var/ or wherever you store your DB tables like MySQL.
- glhaynes 9mo agoAh, yeah, that makes sense, thanks. My experience as "sysadmin" has largely been from the standpoint of personal systems for which that has mostly not been a big concern for me.
- bpfrh 9mo agoIronically using "modern" filesystems like zfs or btrfs you can do that if they are on the same disk
- 1718627440 9mo agoPartitions are still on the same disk?
- smallstepforman 9mo agoThe inverse is also true - cannot download an 60Gb game due to partition size being too small even if there is cumulative free space available.
- homebrewer 9mo agoThis is much better solved by quotas which can be adjusted on the fly without rewriting your partition tables.
- 1718627440 9mo agoI think that is still the recommended way? The GNU/Linux Debian installer definitely does it by default. Even MS Windows does now-a-days.
- grymoire1 9mo agoI have always made /home a separate partition. This makes it so much easier to reinstall and/or wipe out a distro and install a new one. All of my files are left undisturbed.