File system bafflement

[R Kimber]

On Wed, 3 Sep 2014 07:41:37 +0200
Liam Proven wrote:

> Seems *remarkably* stingy these days. I usually suggest 16GB, and not
> using separate FSs for /usr/* or /var/*

My motive for this originally was that root is on a SSD and at the time I
thought that it might be better to have partitions that might be written to
a lot on a normal HD.  I guess that this sort of consideration no longer
applies to modern SSDs.  I'm contemplating getting a new machine with
larger SSDs and may well then put /, /usr, /tmp, and /var all in the one
partition.

- Richard.
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Richard Kimber