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> On Tue, Sep 22, 1998 at 12:30:55AM -0700, Toomas Losin wrote:
> > [...]
> > My standard Red Hat installs have a 16 meg root filesystem, including
> > /boot. [...]
>
> Which subdirectories of / do you mount from elsewhere? Do you have a
> separately mounted partition for each of these, or just one additional
> partition with some symbolic links, or ???

I have /, /usr, and /var on separate filesystems. On internal servers
I used to put /home on a separate filesystem too but eventually always
had to play games because I guessed the wrong size for it, so it's now
part of /var. On public shell boxes I would keep /home separate for
obvious reasons. :-)

-- 
Toomas Losin                            ParaLynx Internet




                        New Westminster, BC

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