From: Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com   
      
   On Sat, 27 Nov 2021 18:24:07 +0100, K. Venken wrote:   
      
   > Chris Vine wrote:   
   >> Your directory layout above looks insane.  What's the point of so many   
   >> partitions?   
      
   > I agree with /home on a separate partition as / and /tmp does. I would   
   > however add /var on a separate partition as well. It contains dynamic   
   > data which might be useful to recover when system breaks, if at all.   
      
   Aragorns partitions looks very much like the partitions on my system. The   
   point is to protect the / partition against failures in case of something   
   like a power outage. That is done by keeping the / partition small.   
      
   Usually most of your installation data lives below /usr and maybe also   
   some below /opt. Those partitions might be big, but are still rather safe   
   against failures as usually there is not much writing done to those   
   partitions.   
      
   Partitions which get a lot of writings are /var and /tmp, but those   
   partitions are not very big and do not contain very important data   
   (unless you run something like a mysql server).   
      
   As you understand it is for many reasons convenient to have /home on a   
   separate partition.   
      
   regards Henrik   
      
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