[plug] Debian 3.0

[Paul Day]

On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, Craig Ringer wrote:
> It is possible, especially on "home" systems, to get away with unifying
> /var with / - most useful if you don't have much in the way of disk
> space. You can also get away with having /usr on / but I'm reluctant to
> do this usually.

These days I generally don't bother with separating /usr and / - with
disk-space being so expansive and cheap now.

The idea with your major system stuff being in /bin and /sbin was that
they should generally be on the same drive as / so that if your /usr drive
died (seeing drive space was limitted and /usr would be on a separate
drive), you could still bring the box up.

These days, I generally go for:
/
swap
/var - so that if it fills up it doesn't fill everything else up and/or so
you can have your logging being done on a seperate drive to data and
binaries to keep performance up on busy servers.
/home - so it can be mounted noexec to dis-arm users a little, and makes
upgrades easier.
/tmp - so it can be mounted noexec to dis-arm users a little.
/boot - if the OS/boot-loader needs kernel image near front of drive
(eg silo for Linux on Sparc)

PD

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