If you don't mind DoS from logs filling up your entire hard drive. All sorts of things break when you have no free disk space. If your system does not have direct access from the Internet this is significantly limited risk. A lot of people run web/mail/ssh/ftp/etc services. If it's on a laptop and you bring it to an untrusted network (eg local coffee wifi) you're at risk. Additionally depending on what you're doing some filesytem types or flags make be desirable for some partitions and not for others. A simple example is to set "noatime" on ext3 for partitions running large mail servers that have lots of smaller files to vastly improve performance. This particular case may or may not be applicable today as I've not setup and maintained an smtp server in along time (thankfully). Here is some additional justification from Opening for partition separation including (secure) defaults they use http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#Partitioning -------- Original message -------- From: David Wagle <david.wagle at gmail.com> Date:02/24/2014 9:27 AM (GMT-06:00) To: TCLUG Mailing List <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Will Firefox 20.0 become obselete for basic use? With modern file systems and home hardware raid capabilities, there really isn't a technical downside to simply going with a / partition. If you have an SSD drive you can always go with / on the SSD and /home for all the data. More than that is really kind of missing the points of LVM and the raid capabilities inherent in the hardware. On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 3:14 AM, Mike Miller <mbmiller+l at gmail.com> wrote: On Sun, 23 Feb 2014, tclug at freakzilla.com wrote: Like I said, I don't think it's an unlimited skip, and some versions might be better at it than others. I used do-release-upgrade -d, and it worked for me. Might not have worked as well in previous versions. That is sort of consistent with what happened with my 12.04.2 LTS going to 14.04. It probably has something to do with it being LTS. The other two were not LTS and they did not try to skip. Clearly, the man page for do-release-upgrade is not correct in stating that the -d option will "Check if upgrading to the latest devel release is possible." It almost always checks only for the next release from 6 months after the installed release. Mike _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota tclug-list at mn-linux.org http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20140224/7970ffcd/attachment-0001.html>