[ale] partitioning and /usr [was Re: Looking for recommendations on LVM + soft Raid on home server]

[ted at techmachine.net (Ted W)]

On Mar 20, 2012, at 11:43 AM, Robert wrote:
>> I disagree with NOT having separate /var, /usr, /home, /tmp etc...
> 
> I've usually broken these out too.. And was surprised to find that Fedora 16
> spits out a warning if you have /usr on it's own partition. The seems to be
> something to do with the new systemd, which manages the init scripts.
> 
> http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/separate-usr-is-broken
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This may be mildly unrelated, however, does anyone have a link to a good read on WHY it's recommended that certain directories be on different partitions? I've seen a lot of talk about this and really never understood the theory behind why it's done one way vs. another.

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Ted W. < Ted at Techmachine.net >
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