On Sat, February 13, 2016 2:50 pm, John R Pierce wrote:> On 2/13/2016 12:19 PM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: >> It is interesting to observe how perceptions are changing over time. >> Decade or two ago we were partitioning small then drives (thus loosing >> some of the space) just to separate regular users from those places >> vital >> for secure and reliable running of the system. Security. There days I >> bet >> there will be multiple experts who will bag me to death if I will try to >> offer any pro partitioning argument. This is just a very interesting >> (for >> me) observation. > > > I still like making /home its own file system, and if I'm running a > substantial (non-trivial) database server, it also has its own volume, > quite likely on its own raid. >John, you made my day! It is so wonderful to know I'm not the only one who still does this! Valeri> > > -- > john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Ricardo J. Barberis
2016-Feb-15 19:00 UTC
[CentOS] heads up: /boot space on kernel upgrade
El S?bado 13/02/2016, Valeri Galtsev escribi?:> On Sat, February 13, 2016 2:50 pm, John R Pierce wrote: > > On 2/13/2016 12:19 PM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > >> It is interesting to observe how perceptions are changing over time. > >> Decade or two ago we were partitioning small then drives (thus loosing > >> some of the space) just to separate regular users from those places > >> vital > >> for secure and reliable running of the system. Security. There days I > >> bet > >> there will be multiple experts who will bag me to death if I will try to > >> offer any pro partitioning argument. This is just a very interesting > >> (for > >> me) observation. > > > > I still like making /home its own file system, and if I'm running a > > substantial (non-trivial) database server, it also has its own volume, > > quite likely on its own raid. > > John, you made my day! It is so wonderful to know I'm not the only one who > still does this!Well, I though this was standard practice, at least for severs. At work we usually set several partitions (/boot, /, /opt, /var, /var/lib/mysql, /tmp, /home, /home/backup) depending on the use case. For desktops it's always /boot, / and /home. Cheers, -- Ricardo J. Barberis Usuario Linux N? 250625: http://counter.li.org/ Usuario LFS N? 5121: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ Senior SysAdmin / IT Architect - www.DonWeb.com
On Mon, February 15, 2016 1:00 pm, Ricardo J. Barberis wrote:> El S?bado 13/02/2016, Valeri Galtsev escribi?: >> On Sat, February 13, 2016 2:50 pm, John R Pierce wrote: >> > On 2/13/2016 12:19 PM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: >> >> It is interesting to observe how perceptions are changing over time. >> >> Decade or two ago we were partitioning small then drives (thus >> loosing >> >> some of the space) just to separate regular users from those places >> >> vital >> >> for secure and reliable running of the system. Security. There days I >> >> bet >> >> there will be multiple experts who will bag me to death if I will try >> to >> >> offer any pro partitioning argument. This is just a very interesting >> >> (for >> >> me) observation. >> > >> > I still like making /home its own file system, and if I'm running a >> > substantial (non-trivial) database server, it also has its own volume, >> > quite likely on its own raid. >> >> John, you made my day! It is so wonderful to know I'm not the only one >> who >> still does this! > > Well, I though this was standard practice, at least for severs. > > At work we usually set several partitions (/boot, /, /opt, /var, > /var/lib/mysql, /tmp, /home, /home/backup) depending on the use case. >It is so great to hear that! I was shushed a few times by modern experts - I bet on this list too - about following ancient practices and having more than just / partition... so I felt myself as a relic dinosaur, and just kept doing it and kept quiet about that. It nice to be back in a good big company of other like myself ;-) Valeri ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++