John Ritchie wrote:
On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Nikolai Dahlem wrote:
At 13:57 06.07.00 +0200, you wrote:
Partitioning is either a question for a beginner mailing list - or- if it IS a security related question, the information given in the mail is everything else but enough to answer.
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Nikolai
There _are_ security-related issues regarding disk partitioning, so you're not off base to ask the question to this list, IMO. <<snip>> My basic partition scheme is generally a variation of this:
/ /var /tmp /home
plus usually a /usr partition since that's where most of the software lives (so I usually end up adding disks to this partition), plus partitions for special software, such as Oracle or Usenet news, plus sometimes /usr/local if I have a lot of local stuff such as a big httpd root.
Additionally you can use separate partitions for : /boot /opt /var/log/mail /var/log/spool Since SuSE 6.4 I use ReiserFS for all partitions but /boot. Until now it works great, the time for recovery is just some seconds, even on multi-giga partitions :-). Regards, Fred Mobach