Sharing /home and /var on one partition

[Daniel Robitaille]

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Andy Boersma <andy at boersma.ca> wrote:
> Hi Bob,
>
> There is no reason why not.
>
> You can put them both on the same drive.
>
> The only reason for putting them on separate drives is for performance, by
> being on separate drives, the kernel can read/write to both in parallel.
> On the same drive it will always be a sequential operation.
>
> Andy

another reason to keep them separate is that if an user does something
stupid and fill up /home (or /var), then it doesn't affect the other
filesystem and possibly the other users as badly.   Less a problem
with small install of one or just a couple of users.  More of a
problem with installation with a larger number of users (or with users
who are more clueless...).



-- 
Daniel Robitaille