• marcos@lemmy.world
      11·
      8 months ago

      Wow, I can’t believe I’m reading that first point from a 2018 comment. I’d mock it if it was in 2006.

      You should have backups. Not hedge against 1 in 10 million error conditions.

      The second one is a huge bother in desktops. I never not regretted trying it.

      The third one is a complete non-problem.

      • scratchandgame@lemmy.mlTiếng Việt
        2·
        8 months ago

        You should have backups. Not hedge against 1 in 10 million error conditions.

        if a partition isn’t actively written to, it’s less likely to suffer damage

        The second one is a huge bother in desktops. I never not regretted trying it.

        ok

        The third one is a complete non-problem.

        This is only a problem with OpenBSD. They never encourage using a huge single root partition, and never test it.

        It have an asterisk, not a -