What is the consensus on the best partition scheme and size?/Keeping home separate
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Wed Oct 25 18:49:08 UTC 2006
What is the FHS?
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Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> personally, i lay out my laptop a lot closer to your server
> suggestion but, then again, my laptop *is* my primary system. that
> said, here are a couple of other thoughts:
>
> 1) a separate /tmp to protect the root filesystem from /tmp overflow
> has always seemed to me like a good idea.
>
> 2) and speaking of /tmp, i'm pondering the idea of moving /tmp under
> /var and symlinking /tmp -> /var/tmp. i could have sworn that there
> was something in the FHS that suggested that /tmp really belonged
> under /var because of its dynamic nature.
>
> 3) if i'm feeling bold and daring, i'll mount /usr read-only (as the
> FHS suggests it has the right to be). AFAIK, there's nothing in
> fedora core that requires /usr to be mounted read-write in normal
> operation, and i can always remount briefly when i'm installing or
> updating SW.
>
> rday
>
>
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