Re: File layout?

Randy Dees wrote:

><quote who="Joe Brault">
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>>My question is, how does everyone set up
>>they're file systems?  Do u have /home on a separate partition, and
>>/usr on a separate one, or everything on one partition?  What would
>>be the best from a security standpoint?  I've seen it done alot of
>>different ways, and wanted to get input from all the folks here.
>>Thanks for your time :)
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>Joe;
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>Personally I find it a good idea to seperate user data (/home, generally)
>from  OS data.  If you have a system with an active spool (mail, news,
>print server, for example) then you might want a seperate /var.  It's
>valuable to seperate /boot from the other file systems if you mount it
>noauto so that you only have it mounted when you want to change it and
>therefore mount it.
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Yes, I see it the same way (except I still don't see a really good 
reason to keep boot unmounted).
In addition I would suggest giving tmp an own partition, so it can't 
grow too big and clutter your root.

>My personal systems are partitioned generally as
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>/boot
>/home
>/usr/local
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I, for myself have regular partitions for /boot and /. For the rest I 
use LVM with own LVs for /home, /opt/ usr /var and /tmp. /usr/local 
might be an idea if you use it a lot.
In addtion to that I use 2 LVs /data (for downladed installation files) 
and /multimedia (for data used by all users on the system, such as mp3).
If you have a 2 disk system (non-RAID) then there are some very fiendish 
(hope I spell that correctly) to divide the partitions over the disks to 
get maximum performance.

Chris