On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 15:38 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote: > For me, the major advantages of the separate filesystems are: > [snip] I just like to add that using separate filesystems lets you mount them with different options. For example, I mount all filesystems other than / with option nodev, and all filesystems other than / and /usr (maybe /usr/local) with noexec. This makes it harder for malicious or inquisitive users to run their own software or play other tricks on the system. Also, on mail servers, I use a separate filesystem for the mail spool, and mount it with option data=journal, effectively forcing synchronous behaviour. This is not ideal for performance but good for reliable mail handling. Cheers Steffen.
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