On 02/18/12 08:40, Maxim Khitrov wrote:

I don't see how a server and desktop should be handled differently, in fact a desktop could be more disastrous than a server so the separate partitions have saved asses many times.

/tmp should be tmpfs, yes; but / and /usr should be separate still (c'mon! It's only 1G; why quibble?) because desktop users are not always as 'diligent' as they should be with space, or something else can occur to fill it up. If it is full, then you can't put a fix in /root/, edit fstab, rc.conf, syslog.conf, anything. There are serious consequences to a full file system that can render the system useless.

A server may be mission critical, production, whatever; but a desktop user doesn't want too much hassle to restore the system either, especially on a laptop. They certainly don't want to blow the system away and start again for something that silly (dramatic and over the top, I know, but a new user may do just that if they don't know how to fix it quickly without difficulty). The cost of the original layout was small, and the benefit was huge, I've still set all my systems this way (desktop/server).

If you are going to change back to the old behaviour don't discriminate.

And on that note: I have my hand up and waving wildly :)