Re: tlug: LILO Vs. 1024??

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "Jonathan" == Jonathan Byrne <- 3Web <jq@example.com>> writes:

    Jonathan> Thanks for all the good info on this, Rex.  So you would
    Jonathan> recommend separate partitions for:

    Jonathan> /home
    Jonathan> /
    Jonathan> /user

    Jonathan> Any others?

/var - If you fill /home or /tmp (depending on your arrangement), the 
       mail goes through and the logs get written.
/var/ftp/incoming - (for example) if you fear denial of service
       attacks against any of your exposed services.  Note that many
       of the files in /var/log are subject to abuse by net critters;
       if you're going to be this paranoid, be REALLY careful.
/tmp - another good place for files that accidently get to big for
       your britches.

Anything you might want someday to get rid of entirely by mounting it
NFS from another machine (in my case, /playpen, my development/beta
testing area; /usr/local is now a different concept entirely).

    Jonathan> Question: as of now it seems there is no way to change
    Jonathan> the size of an ext2 partition on the fly, so if you want
    Jonathan> to change the size of one or more partitions on a
    Jonathan> physical disk, that involves backing them up, zapping
    Jonathan> some or all of them with fdisk, then making new
    Jonathan> partitions and restoring the data.

Many small partititions makes this much easier, if you keep a few free 
ones around.

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