Re: Partitioning hard drives
Well, I in particular am a fan of using at least a separated /boot and
/usr partitions, because I like to make them read-only and "noatime".
When having multiuser machines I also keep /home separated.
How much space for each? Well, some 8MB to /boot is more than enough and
as /usr is pretty much static and I always install "test-servers" first
to setup to my like I get the feel of how much /usr needs and add some
more MB just to be safe... for instance I have woody servers with a
100MB /usr partition (they use about 70MB in /usr).. Desktops take 2-3Gb
to /usr...
The other partitions really depend on the machine you're setting up...
But after all this thread, now I am having a question: As I said, I am
fan of using "ro,noatime" as much as I can... and things in /bin, /sbin
and /lib are pretty static, right? But we can't put those in partitions,
can we? They need to be in / so that they're there at boottime, before
fstab is read, right?
Complaining about FHS:
I was reading FHS and thinking about these things and... for instance
they say /etc should contain static stuff... but we have
/etc/resolv.conf that is rewritten by dhcp!!!!
Now that I'm thinking, / could be "ro"... as long as it exists /home,
/tmp and /var being mounted as "rw" it should work... hmmmm... i gotta
double-check this for my servers... hmmm....
Joao Clemente
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