[ale] Basic configuration advice needed.

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Quinton McCombs wrote:
> 
> Although I am not new to Unix, I am new to the administration side of a
> Unix box.  I was wondering if I could get some help on partitioning with
> Linux (RedHat 5.2 to be specific).
> 
> I have seen that on most Unix systems, the admin will mount the /var, /etc,
> /, and perhaps a few others in separate partitions even though they all
> reside on the same physical drive.  Is this only to prevent file sizes in
> /var (for example) from filling up the root file system?   Or is this also
> done for performance reasons?

Protecting root is the primary reason.  There may be others, none I can
think of at this time.  I don't know of any performance gains by doing
it.


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