Do I need separate root and usr partitions?
From Bill Studenmund (wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu): It’s a matter of taste. The reasons for having different partitions is two-fold. Some partitions, like /var or /tmp or /home, you want independent so as to keep them independent from everything else (so filling up one doesn’t mean the whole machine’s out of disk space. Now the above’s a matter of style. My home machine does NOT have seperate /home, /tmp, and /var partitions. All our workstations in lab do. You’ll do fine w/o them seperate, especially if you are the only user. The other reason for seperate partitions is so that if you have a power loss, only part of the disk gets sick. If part of your system is not changing w/ time, if the power goes down, you won’t get a (or MUCH less of a ) corrupted file system. It’s like on my MacOS side, all my applications (which rarely change) are on one partition, and my data files are on the other. If my machine crashes, I only need to sick Norton on the data partition. 🙂 It really depends up
