Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3506 mails)

[Jerry Feldman <gaf@xxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 2 Sep 2006 15:12:00 -0400
Paul Abrahams <abrahams@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> I'm about to organize the hard drive on a new system and I'm looking for 
> advice about partitioning it.  The question is: which Linux partitions should 
> be separated out from the root partition?  Candidates 
> are /boot, /usr, /var, /home (that one for sure), /tmp, and /usr/local.   I 
> can probably make pretty good guesses at the appropriate sizes by looking at 
> my existing systems.  
I agree with most of the advice given in this thread:
/boot - Maybe
/home - definitely
/usr/local - yes, if you install software other than via RPM
/var - sometimes. /var contains log files, spools, print queues and
many other files of a volatile nature. In business Unix environments,
this is frequently separate for backup reasons and because certain DOS
attacks can fill up this directory.  Probably not necessary for you.
/tmp - some people make /tmp separate because it contains mostly temp
files, and you may want to allocate a small root partition.
/usr - I rarely do this even in business since it is not very volatile.
Historically, it was mountable because of the small disks used. 

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