At 11:02 PM 9/26/99 +0300, you wrote:
This is my first try at more than swap and /. tiny /boot, giant /home, right? Anyone feel like helping?
I don't think a separate partition for /boot would be a good idea. /boot is the default location for the kernel. Having the kernel and init (usually /sbin) on different partitions is probably bad. I don't see how that would work unless you mounted them both on the first pass (could take some mucking around in your startup scripts, and generally not a good idea).
/home doesn't *have* to be giant. If you have multiple users, I would highly suggest separating /var, /usr, /tmp and possibly /var/tmp. With quotas enabled on /home, this eliminates most disk-filling attacks. Its also important to mount user-writable partitions with suid execution disabled (specified in /etc/fstab).
For an example of a decent partitioning scheme on relatively little space (for a pretty minimal server in this case.. no X, etc. ) take a look at this:
$ df Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on /dev/hda1 21777 10748 9905 52% / /dev/hda2 198181 103638 84309 55% /usr /dev/hda3 22043 10632 10273 51% /var /dev/hdc1 89266 33 84623 0% /home /dev/hdc3 19805 13 18769 0% /tmp /dev/hdc4 20447 13 19378 0% /var/tmp $ cat /etc/fstab # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> /dev/hda1 / ext2 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/hdc2 none swap sw 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda2 /usr ext2 defaults 0 2 /dev/hda3 /var ext2 defaults,nosuid 0 2 /dev/hdc1 /home ext2 defaults,nosuid 0 2 /dev/hdc3 /tmp ext2 defaults,nosuid 0 2 /dev/hdc4 /var/tmp ext2 defaults,nosuid 0 2
