On Sunday 16 April 2006 12:51, Brendan Grossman wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Beech Rintoul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Monday, 17 April 2006 6:19 AM > > To: [email protected] > > Cc: Brendan Grossman > > Subject: Re: /boot at beginning of drive > > > > On Sunday 16 April 2006 12:38, Brendan Grossman wrote: > > > > It's not a good idea to put everything on the / filesystem. > > > > At a minimum I would have: > > > > / > > > > swap > > > > /var > > > > /usr > > > > > > > > Your users will not fill up /var unless you allow them unlimited > > > > mail, databases or access to root. > > > > > > They will have unlimited access up until their quota has > > > > been reached. > > > > > Where they use that quota is anyone's guess. > > > > > > > User's tempfiles will go to /usr/tmp. > > > > > > How does that work? I just checked /tmp, and it's not a symlink. > > > > Copy the contents of /tmp to /usr/tmp then remove /tmp and > > symlink /usr/tmp to /tmp. > > Yes, may I ask what the point is though? > > Here is my reason for separating /tmp and mounting it noexec,nosuid: > > http://www.sagonet.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2852 > Having a separate /tmp slice is not a bad idea, combining /, /usr, and /var is unless you're doing a very minimal install.
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