On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 05:16:58PM -0500, Marc A. Ohmann wrote: > > / -- 200MB -- this is for /boot, /bin, /sbin, and /tmp (/tmp should always > > be on the / partition, because it may be needed during the boot sequence). > > you could also leave /home on this drive, if you don't ever plan on doing > > anything with it. > > >From my experience, I would leave /tmp off the root partition so you can mount / ro for further protection from corruption. I also don't generally like to let any user fill up the / partition as /tmp is usually world writable. 1. Don't create a /tmp partition. Make that disk as swap and use tmpfs. The relevant /etc/fstab line: tmp /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0 Of course you need kernel 2.4... 2. You can't mount / as ro. There is at least /etc/mtab (which you can symlink to /proc/mounts but there are still problems with that) and some other files... > Some older instalations require /usr to be on / for access during boot but I don't think any current dist requires this. No way /usr is required. > I managed to install Slack 3.? on my 386-25 with a 20MB HD from 4.25" floppies. It used to route my ppp connection and print serve. Gee, you really have a problem with numbers/sizes do you ? :)... I haven't seen 4.25" floppies yet...</joke> florin -- "If it's not broken, let's fix it till it is." 41A9 2BDE 8E11 F1C5 87A6 03EE 34B3 E075 3B90 DFE4 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 230 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20011023/49470af1/attachment.pgp