Re: partition this thing!
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
>
>
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