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| Oct 25, 2016 at 0:40 | comment | added | Charles Burge | Also stability. If you put /var on a separate partition, then log files that grow out of control won't fill up the rest of the drive (and potentially bring down the system). (edit - Just noticed Adrien pointed this out below. :) | |
| May 16, 2010 at 17:27 | comment | added | sleske | Thanks for the info; I wasn't aware of that. I hope there's not too many shops that still backup using dump though... . BTW: Fascinating stuff about the old tapes :-). | |
| May 13, 2010 at 15:57 | comment | added | KeithB | @sleske This is a historical artifact of the original Unix dump and restore commands, which would only work at the filesystem level. I ran into this when tape drives used 1/2 inch (I think) tapes on 1 foot diameter reals, in a drive about the size of a refrigerator. With some iron fillings, you could actually see the bits on the tape. | |
| Apr 2, 2010 at 3:28 | comment | added | sleske | I don't see why separate parts help with backup; you can just as well backup folders separately. Could you explain? | |
| Feb 8, 2010 at 21:05 | comment | added | DaveParillo | +1. Also security. You can set /boot to be readonly or /tmp to be noexec, for example. | |
| Aug 28, 2009 at 0:00 | vote | accept | ryeguy | ||
| Aug 26, 2009 at 20:01 | history | answered | KeithB | CC BY-SA 2.5 |