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To be or to not be that is indeed the question

A while ago there was a strange thing occurring with the CentOS project, for some reason they changed their planned end-of-life date for their release of CentOS 8. Since many utilised this as their main Operating System many butts where hurt and there was much gnashing of teeth. You, dear reader, should not forget that they were complaining about the fact that a free (as in beer) resource were being taken away from them. This was of course a move that Redhat made attempting to make freeloaders buy licenses for their Redhat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). CentOS did not leave anyone hanging though but instead of the slow cadence of CentOS they now provide CentOS stream which is a rolling release (IE no 8.1, 8.2 and so on).

I know this is a bit of an history lesson but I will get to the point of why I think it is good to get rug-pulled every so often within the field of IT.

Thinking about partitioning and mount points

While some might think that creating anything more then the one root partition is unnecessarily obscure or obtuse, for me, a Linux installation is not complete without a carefully planned partition scheme. The benefits are several, first and foremost you protect yourself against a single stupid application logging to much and filling your entire drive with some spammed syslog message. Secondly there is some security benefits since you can deny specific actions from being available to a unprivileged user in the system via others writable areas. It also simplifies restoration when a system has had failures,or as in my case: I have yet again reinstalled the Operating system and need to now dump all my stuff back into the /home/ directories.

The method we will use is to now break down the what and slowly work our way to the why and in the end we might end up understanding my train of thoughts in respect to why having several mount-points is a good thing.

Putting in some effort

So let us start out by discussing the purpose of this blog in greater detail. The primary purpose of the texts herein is to scratch a creative itch, I am not eloquent or well versed but I do feel the need to express myself sometimes in the written word. Secondly I have no intention of writing things that is in any way delivered in any scheduled way. That being said I think it is time to make a small effort in adding texts at a semi-regular basis. Thirdly it still feels like I need to contribute something into the void, either with guides or with guidance.

I should note here that I am well aware of the amount of traffic I garner every month and that my rants and ravings are read mostly by the forgotten and unseen bots. This is in the end a question about allowing me an outlet of some of my word-puke with the chance that someone might stumble upon this site and find it amusing.