On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 10:32:24AM +0530, Raj Mathur wrote: > 1. Keep /boot in a separate partition near the beginning of the disk.
Space you'd recommend - 50MB or so? > 2. Keep /tmp in a separate partition and set the noexec flag on it. > Most (all?) Linux rootkits install through creating a file in /tmp, > compiling it and running it from there itself. noexec /tmp and they > go away looking foolish muttering ``Curses! Foiled again!'' under > their breath. Can /tmp be shared safely across distributions? > 3. Keep /home in a separate partition if there are going to be > multiple distributions on the box, or if there's a chance you may be > removing the current distribution and installing another one. You can > preserve user data across upgrades/switches that way. I agree that this is an important and favourable point. The customized configs need not be repeated for each app. Now, if I create a /boot at the top for 50 MB for the first distro I install (/dev/hda1), /usr, /var, /home, / and swap can be in /dev/hda5, /dev/hda6, /dev/hda7, /dev/hda8 and /dev/hda9. When I install the second or third distro, I can reuse my /home, /tmp and swap, but if I want to have three distros, I guess I can't indefinitely keep dividing their individual /usr, /var etc. into separate partitions, isn't it? A few have to be clubbed together there to avoid too many partitions, right? Thanks. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idt77&alloc_id492&op=click _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list linux-india-help@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
