[RndTbl] files system & partitions

[Sean A. Walberg]

I've written some articles about this:

http://ertw.com/~sean/newsletter/June+14%2C+2001

and to some lesser extent,

http://ertw.com/~sean/newsletter/March+22%2C+2001

I usually do /, /boot, /var, /home, /usr, and swap

Sean

On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, author wrote:

> Can I have some advice on which
> part of the file system to install
> in which partition?
> For example:
>  Is there any advantage to install
> /root in its own partition?
> Would it be more secure?
>  I'm thinking of giving
> /usr   its own partition incase
> some application gets nasty.
> /home  would get a separate partition
> and everything else would go
> into a 4th partition.
>   Does this sound OK? I hope
> Red Hat 7.2 allows me to do this if
> I pretend to be an 'expert'.
>   Any advice would be much appreciated.
>
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