Disk partitioning and swap

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     I keep my home directory on a seperate partition for this same kind of 
     reason.  My usr partition died one day.  All my home stuff was fine.  
     If I had one big partion I would have lost a lot of time and data.  I 
     reloded my entire operating system and then simply mounted the home 
     partition again.  No fuss, no muss.  


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Subject: Re: Disk partitioning and swap
Author:  Jerry Feldman {75562} <gzf at gbr.msd.ray.com> at InterNet
Date:    4/2/99 11:08 AM


Don Troxel makes a good point regarding backups. Back in 1980 when I first 
started using Unix, the normal partitioning was root and /usr. User 
directories were normally /usr/users. More recently, the /var and /home 
directory trees were introduced. One reason for this is backup strategies: 
The / and /usr file systems are normally very stable. With the exception of 
some configuration files, there is no need to back them up. The /var file 
system is constandly changing. It normally contains /var/tmp /var/spool, 
neither of which need to be preserved for any length of time. And, the /home 
file system contains user directories. Also, the dump command on commercial 
Unix platforms is issued on a per file system basis, such as dump /dev/sda4. 
On a home system, I would be more inclined to use tar to backup various 
directory trees. 
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