[mdlug] What are the best practices for Linux partitioning & Mount points for Production systems

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Fri, 2012-03-02 at 13:59 +0000, Wojtak, Greg (Superfly) wrote:
> My typical build out looks similar to what you propose.  I make the "holy
> trinity" 
> filesystems 4GB each (unless more is needed):
> / - 4GB
> /usr - 4GB
> /var - 4GB
> /tmp - 1GB
> /boot - 200M
> /home - Almost always automounted NFS
> swap - A couple GB, depending on the application
> If an application is going to use a specific directory to hold a lot of
> data, then I will create a separate filesystem for it. 

+1  There are no 'general' guidelines.  It depends on what the server
does.

> I also highly recommend using LVM.

+1  There isn't a reason not to.