Re: *nix partitioning practices

[email protected] wrote:
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> -----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
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>> [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
> 
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>> 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
> 
I always set up with /boot, /, /tmp, /home (where users dump things) and
/var (where Linux dumps things).  That covers most of the accidental
system disk fill ups.
SG

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