Re: /home out of space
- From: Tobias Brox <tobias@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 09:26:02 +0000 (UTC)
[David L. Johnson]
> Long time ago I realized why that was a bad idea. back then, sometimes, a
> file write would go beserk, and bits of that file would be implanted all
> over the partition.
One will always need backup routines, and one will have problems
whenever a partition is corrupted, regardless of whether that
partition is just a bit of the system or the whole system.
> Probably won't happen now, but it is a good practice
> to put heavily-written areas off by themselves, and leave the distribution
> in a partition that logfiles, or browser cache, will not be writing.
A good practice, but nevertheless I stick to my claim that the home
user at some point almost always would wish that the boundaries was
set differently, and that this will cause headaches and significant
administrative overhead.
--
Tobias Brox, 69°42'N, 18°57'E
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