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Operating Systems Linux Are /home partitions worth it? Post 302863829 by maerlyngb on Tuesday 15th of October 2013 07:22:50 AM
Old 10-15-2013
Thanks for your informative response.

To be honest, I don't know what s-bit programs are and I never actually considered that having separate partitions could be a security control. I'll put this on my list for things to research.

The main reason I was hesitant to create separate partitions is because I'm not sure how much space I'll need and I don't want to be stuck in a few months when either my /home directory is full or the rest of my system is full.

Would I get the same benefits by having all of my data on a separate drive and creating symlinks to my home directories? Would it be better to just store /home on a separate drive or is there some advantage to having partitions on the same drive?

Are there any other directories which you would recommend to create a separate partition for?
 

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KPARTX(8)                                                  Linux Administrator's Manual                                                  KPARTX(8)

NAME
kpartx - Create device maps from partition tables SYNOPSIS
kpartx [-a | -d | -l] [-v] wholedisk DESCRIPTION
This tool, derived from util-linux' partx, reads partition tables on specified device and create device maps over partitions segments detected. It is called from hotplug upon device maps creation and deletion. OPTIONS
-a Add partition mappings -r Readonly partition mappings -r Read-only partition mappings -d Delete partition mappings -u Update partition mappings -l List partition mappings that would be added -a -p set device name-partition number delimiter -f force creation of mappings; overrides 'no_partitions' feature -g force GUID partition table (GPT) -v Operate verbosely -s Sync mode. Don't return until the partitions are created EXAMPLE
To mount all the partitions in a raw disk image: kpartx -av disk.img This will output lines such as: loop3p1 : 0 20964762 /dev/loop3 63 The loop3p1 is the name of a device file under /dev/mapper which you can use to access the partition, for example to fsck it: fsck /dev/mapper/loop3p1 When you're done, you need to remove the devices: kpartx -d disk.img SEE ALSO
multipath(8) multipathd(8) hotplug(8) AUTHORS
This man page was assembled By Patrick Caulfield for the Debian project. From documentation provided by the multipath author Christophe Varoqui, <christophe.varoqui@opensvc.com> and others. July 2006 KPARTX(8)
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