Re: /boot at beginning of drive
- From: Beech Rintoul <beech@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 14:07:44 -0800
On Sunday 16 April 2006 13:30, Brendan Grossman wrote:
Having a separate /tmp slice is not a bad idea, combining /,
/usr, and /var is unless you're doing a very minimal install.
I can separate /usr, but my goal is to combine /home and /var, or at least
where mail and databases are stored, for reasons already mentioned.
I suppose I could do this...
/ 5gb
swap 4gb
/tmp 1gb
/usr 70gb
Then /home -> /usr/home, /var -> /usr/var
Or create a 60gb partition and call it /users
Then /var/mail -> /users/mail, /var/dbdir -> /users/dbdir
The drive is 80gb (effectively 74ish), and 60gb of it must be for users
(using either /var or /home)
I suppose it is a bit better.
If /home is symlinked to /usr/home, then use a MTA that will deliver mail
to /home/user/mail. Databases are stored in /var/db for security reasons, but
there's no reason you can't configure whatever db you're using to store
database files in /usr. The reason for having a separate /var partition is in
the event of a filesystem crash or you get hacked it's much easier to restore
important files. The same holds true for /etc (which is part of /). Doing a
restore of /usr just to get the system going again could take quite a while
and trying to restore to non-standard locations is guaranteed to give you
some grief. While there is no "standard" filesystem layout on *nix systems,
the recommended layout is tried and true and will be much easier to
troubleshoot without having to translate help documents to your custom setup.
Beech
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