Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can anyone tell me what / directories are reasonable to mount from > other partitions/volumes, and which must stay put for safety? > > Here are my current guesses: > Safe: > /usr > /home (since /root is separate)
These two are definitely good candidates. I like to make a separate partition for /usr/local, too. It typically contains things installed by the user, and is left alone when upgrading the operating system. > /share (oddly, not discussed in FHS) I think you must mean /usr/share, which *is* a good candidate for a separate partition or logical volume. Or, you can just leave it as part of /usr. > > Possibly safe: > /var > /tmp (maybe not--if a startup process uses it, and then it gets > mounted over it seems there would be trouble) These two are safe. Making them separate is common practice. Debian seems to like a much larger /var than most other distributions. > Definitely not: > /boot /boot can be separate, but there's probably no point, unless you have an older BIOS that only boots from the lower 1024 cylinders. > /lock Don't recognise this. Do you mean /var/lock? > /proc This is a virtual file system dynamically created by the kernel. It does not reside on disk. The root partition only has the mount point (an empty directory). Here's the current /etc/fstab for my woody system. I've been doing something similar for many years with no problems. The trick is to get the sizes about right. Logical volumes should help that a *lot*. # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # base system partitions # # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> /dev/hda1 / ext2 errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/hda5 /usr ext2 defaults 0 2 /dev/hda6 /usr/local ext2 defaults 0 2 /dev/hda7 /var ext2 defaults 0 2 /dev/hda8 /tmp ext2 defaults 0 2 # local site partitions /dev/hda9 /home ext2 defaults 0 2 /dev/hda10 /w ext2 defaults 0 2 /dev/hda12 /x ext2 defaults 0 2 /dev/hda13 /y ext2 defaults 0 2 /dev/hda14 /z ext2 noauto 0 2 # special file systems /dev/hda11 none swap sw 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/fd0 /floppy auto user,noauto 0 0 /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0 Regards, -- Jack O'Quin Austin, Texas, USA http://www.stellajazz.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
