From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 22 13:36:47 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CD441065670 for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 13:36:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cpghost@cordula.ws) Received: from mail-vx0-f182.google.com (mail-vx0-f182.google.com [209.85.220.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E8EC8FC18 for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 13:36:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vcbfl10 with SMTP id fl10so307455vcb.13 for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 05:36:46 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.182.220.7 with SMTP id ps7mr3265962obc.51.1321969006220; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 05:36:46 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.182.187.8 with HTTP; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 05:36:46 -0800 (PST) X-Originating-IP: [93.221.165.190] In-Reply-To: <20111122103043.82377106564A@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20111122080542.5c993efe@zelda.sugioarto.com> <20111122103043.82377106564A@hub.freebsd.org> Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 14:36:46 +0100 Message-ID: From: "C. P. Ghost" To: "Thomas Mueller , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /usr/home vs /home X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 13:36:47 -0000 On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 11:30 AM, <"Thomas Mueller wrote: > But I don't see any advantage to putting /, /usr, and /var on separate partitions. > > Tom Regarding separate /usr and /var: the advantage is that you can keep /usr read-only which is also important for security reasons since modifying system binaries becomes less easy. Furthermore, you can NFS share a read-only /usr among many similar machines, while /var is a per-machine specific read-write area. -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/