On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 09:17:09PM -0400, Chris Ruvolo wrote: > 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).
Chris, would you please go into this? I have a seperate 30meg /boot partition at the start of my drive to ensure that lilo will ALWAYS be able to see my entire kernel. I have only booted the machine six or seven times (love linux! :) and haven't had any trouble yet, but I don't need to get into trouble due to this... :) Thanks > /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 > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Seth Arnold | http://www.willamette.edu/~sarnold/ Hate spam? See http://maps.vix.com/rbl/ for help Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread!
