> From: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com [mailto:linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com]On > Behalf Of Chad C. Walstrom > > On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 07:09:20PM -0500, Theo Van Dinter wrote: > > My rule of thumb for disk layout on a server is: > > /boot - Small, usually 32-128MB, don't run out of space here. > > Good. > > > / - I put /usr in here since there's no reason not to any > > longer. So this will be any size you think is > > appropriate. I will usually put anywhere from 4-8GB > > here, depending on disk size. These files should be > > static-ish, no major changed here. Don't let it hit 100%. > > Reason #1: Mount /usr as read-only. There is only one reason why you ONLY if you also have /usr/share (for one, there may be others) on writeable partitions!!! > That being said, I suppose there's not a whole lot holding you back from > mounting "/" as read-only, either. Perhaps /etc/mtab would be an > annoyance, but if you symbolically link it to /proc/mounts, you could > fake it. surely theres more than that in /etc that needs to be writeable? hmmmm doesn't /lib/modules/<something to do with module dependencise> need to be writeable too?
