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#1 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 07:57 AM

I am thinking about putting together a machine with Gentoo on it with
a 30GB drive to use for learning GNU/Linux. I forget where I read it,
but someone was suggesting to make some partitions read-only, and
others with the nosuid option in the fstab. My question is: For
maximum security, and the desire not to have a partition run out of
space, what would your partions(and fstab) look like for a 30GB drive?
The last time I checked the Gentoo handbook, it suggested using 3
partitions, one for /boot, one for swap, and everything else on the
last partition. From that setup, it doesn't look like you could put in
the nosuid on the last partition. Also, should /var, /home, /usr,
/tmp, /var/tmp, and /portage all be on separate mount points? Thanks
for the input.

Clutch

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#2 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 07:57 AM

Clutch wrote:
> I am thinking about putting together a machine with Gentoo on it with
> a 30GB drive to use for learning GNU/Linux.
>
> My question is: For
> maximum security, and the desire not to have a partition run out of
> space, what would your partions(and fstab) look like for a 30GB drive?

I'd use more partitions with LVM2. Gentoo has some documentation over at
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/lvm2.xml

My choice would be something like this:

/boot 128M
/ 2048M
(lvm) rest of disk

/dev/vg/swap 1024M
/dev/vg/usr 12228M
/dev/vg/opt 512M
/dev/vg/home 4096M
/dev/vg/var 4096M
/dev/vg/tmp 1024M

Notice that this only adds up to 25156M - the reasoning behind this is
that it's much easier to leave a little free space for expansion than to
reduce a partition.

Hth,
--
Ben M.

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