/usr/home vs /home

[C. P. Ghost]

On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 11:30 AM,  <"Thomas Mueller
<mueller6727"@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> But I don't see any advantage to putting /, /usr, and /var on separate partitions.
>
> Tom

Regarding separate /usr and /var: the advantage is that you can
keep /usr read-only which is also important for security reasons
since modifying system binaries becomes less easy.

Furthermore, you can NFS share a read-only /usr among many
similar machines, while /var is a per-machine specific read-write
area.

-cpghost.

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