Did we must put the mounted partition '/' and '/boot' in the same slice ?

[Alex Zbyslaw]

RW wrote:

>On Thursday 07 July 2005 18:27, Alex Zbyslaw wrote:
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>>1Gb just because it's peanuts to a 200Gb disk, and I don't bother with
>>/tmp separately.
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>I use one because, by default,  / is mounted without soft-updates. It is 
>possible to turn it on, but for the sake of a few hundred MB it seems 
>sensible to go with the default of a separate partition.  
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If I ran a machine with users on it, I might agree :-)  But there's just 
me and I set TMP and TMPDIR to /var/tmp which many programs used to pick 
up on when I first set them years ago.  sort does, for e.g. and that was 
always a tmp killer in the kind of environments I worked in.  Plus *I* 
know to use /var/tmp.

Nowadays my /tmp has a small number of sockets and gubbins so I doubt 
softupdates would make any perceivable difference to me.

Horses for courses,

--Alex