From: thorongil@telenet.be   
      
   On 29.11.2021 at 06:42, Henrik Carlqvist scribbled:   
      
   > 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.   
      
   /usr and /opt should both be completely read-only during normal   
   operation, because no process should ever write to them, apart from the   
   package manager during an update or when installing software, of course.   
      
   As such, I have also _mounted_ these two filesystems read-only on my   
   system, as well as /boot, and all three also have the "sync" mount   
   option for in case I am updating my system, as well as "nodev", which   
   I'm using on everything in `/etc/fstab — systemd takes care of mounting   
   /dev and /tmp, as well as /run.  /tmp is also mounted "nosuid".   
      
   Another advantage of using separate partitions is that you are no   
   longer limited to one filesystem type.  For instance, you may prefer   
   ext4 on one partition and maybe XFS, JFS or btrfs on another, depending   
   on the intended usage.   
      
   --    
   With respect,   
   = Aragorn =   
      
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