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Filesystem Planning (cont.)

  • My rules for disk partitioning:
  • Separate partition for filesystems which users can write to: /home and /tmp.
  • Separate partition for filesystems which have files that you might want to keep if you upgrade: /usr/local, /opt.
  • Separate partition for filesystems that are dynamic or change frequently: /var.
  • If necessary, separate / and /usr. I generally keep these two partitions together, though if using multiple OSes, you can also build /boot in cyl < 1023. (Note that recent versions of LILO no longer have this limitation.)

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