It also avoids the situation where your system becomes more or less unuseable due to some log in /var filling up the filesystem.
Michael On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, Jim Wildman wrote: > The other important directory to have its own partition is /var. If a > machine crashes, there will be open files in /var. Best to have it on a > separate partition that is easily fsck-able and easily replaceable. If > I've got the space, I'll go for a gig of /var. > > It also reduces some of the denial of service possiblities. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Jim Wildman, CISSP [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.rossberry.com > > On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, Brian Fahrlander wrote: > > > On Wed, 24 Jul 2002 18:07:01 +0200 (CEST), Alessandro Selli ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Il giorno Wed, 24 Jul 2002, Evgeny Limarenko così ha scritto: > > > > > > > [snipped] > > > > > |/boot should be of small size like 32Mb. Swap can be big enough, > > > |something like twice an amount of RAM. The rest is for /. > > > | > > > > > > This is the easiest implementation, but not the safest when you're setting > > > up a server that is going to be accessed by many users, and that offers them > > > several services. > > > > > > All this IMHO, of course. > > > > No, I concur; if I'm just working on my own workstation, this is exactly the >way I do it, sharing one large root partition and all that. > > > > But if there's any uncontrolled access (like, anyone else but me...) I like >making the /homes and /tmp partitions seperate and mount them with the arguments to >mount that tells it to disallow device files and SUID programs and such. This makes >it more safe...and you're right; having /home on another drive lessens the chances of >losing all the user's files in the event of a crash... > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Brian Fahrländer Linux Zealot, Conservative, and Technomad > > Evansville, IN My Voyage: http://www.CounterMoon.com > > ICQ 5119262 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > I don't want to hear news from Isreal until the news contains the words > > "Bullet", "Brain", and "Arafat". > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > > Welcome to geek heaven. > > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > > _____________________________________________________________________ > > Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss > > For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _____________________________________________________________________ > Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss > For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net > ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net
