/boot at beginning of drive

[Beech Rintoul]

On Monday 17 April 2006 13:59, Brendan Grossman wrote:
> > > > Databases are stored in /var/db for security reasons
> > >
> > > Just curious... What are the security reasons? After some thought,
> > > here's what I'm planning on doing...
> > >
> > > Disk is 73gb scsi...
> > >
> > > /	500mb
> > > swap	4gb
> > > /var	4gb
> > > /usr	4gb
> > > /home	remainder (about 60gb)
> > >
> > > then /var/db/mysql -> /home/mysql

You can safely leave /home as part of the /usr filesystem i.e. it will 
be /usr/home. That will gain you 4gb overall. I usually only define /home if 
I'm using a separate drive or network filesystem. If you're going to symlink 
mysql you probibly don't need 4GB in var. My webserver is running @500MB 
on /var with 10 databases. 1 or 2GB will be plenty.

> > >
> > > and /tmp on swap
> > >
> > > Any possible issues with this?
> >
> > I think it unlikely that mounting /tmp on the swap partition
> > will work, because swap isn't a filesystem in the usual sense
> > of the word.
>
> http://users.rcn.com/rneswold/fbsd-init.html#AEN258
>

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