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Operating Systems Linux Are /home partitions worth it? Post 302863793 by hergp on Tuesday 15th of October 2013 06:56:25 AM

10-15-2013

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There are several good reasons to have separate filesystems (not in any particular order):

Filling up the /home filesystem with files or using up all the inodes with tons of tiny files will not affect the operating system
In case of a filesystem damage, the loss of data is limited
I/O can be balanced over several physical devices
/home can be mounted in a way to disallow execution of s-bit programs, resulting in a higher system security
and certainly many more reasons I can't think of at the moment :-)

But of course there are drawbacks

free space is distributed over several filesystems resulting in more unused space. One filesystem can not borrow space from another (in most cases)
on specialized servers, like a DNS server, with no users but the admins, the overhead is unneccesary

Conclusion: in my opinion, the advantages of separate filesystems outweigh the disadvantages by far in most cases. This is valid for all kinds of *ix operating systems.

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partx

PARTX(8)						      System Manager's Manual							  PARTX(8)

NAME

       partx - telling the kernel about presence and numbering of on-disk partitions.

SYNOPSIS

       partx [-a|-d|-l] [--type TYPE] [--nr M-N] [partition] disk

DESCRIPTION

       Given  a  block	device	(  disk  ) and a partition table type , try to parse the partition table, and list the contents. Optionally add or
       remove partitions.

       This is not an fdisk - adding and removing partitions is not a change of the disk, but just telling the kernel about presence and numbering
       of on-disk partitions.

OPTIONS

       -a     add specified partitions or read disk and add all partitions

       -d     delete specified or all partitions

       -l     list partitions. Note that the all numbers are in 512-byte sectors.

       --type TYPE
	      Specify the partition type -- dos, bsd, solaris, unixware or gpt.

       --nr M-N
	      Specify the range of partitions (e.g --nr 2-4).

SEE ALSO

       addpart(8), delpart(8), fdisk(8), parted(8), partprobe(8)

AVAILABILITY

       The partx command is part of the util-linux-ng package and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/.

								    11 Jan 2007 							  PARTX(8)

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