RE: *nix partitioning practices

 

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Jeff Willis
Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 1:41 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: *nix partitioning practices

> [email protected] wrote:
>> 8GB  - SWAP  (4GB RAM)
>> 1GB  -  /    (root)
>> 15GB - /var  (qmail puts everything in there)
>> 10GB - /usr  (base binaries and ports)
>> 10GB - /usr/local   (additional binaries I install)
>> 200GB - /home    I used to just have one home fs, but I found that it 
>> 200GB - /home2    makes for very long amanda restores for a customer site


> I would also add a /tmp partition.  Having root fill-up isn't pleasant 
> plus having /tmp on a separate partition means the root file system is 
> changed less often so fsck is faster and more reliable after an unclean 
> shutdown.

Agreed.  I'd also point out that having a separate partition for /tmp allows
you to set /tmp as noexec which foils a healthy percentage of script kiddie
exploit scripts.

Andrew


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