From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RTydm-0003ci-G4 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 25 Nov 2011 16:28:43 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9EE4D21C07E; Fri, 25 Nov 2011 16:28:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bw0-f53.google.com (mail-bw0-f53.google.com [209.85.214.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A7BE21C049 for ; Fri, 25 Nov 2011 16:27:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bkaq10 with SMTP id q10so5487620bka.40 for ; Fri, 25 Nov 2011 08:27:29 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=+XUHORoFeEVoyh7yIVRGa8QfLWqGEdhEy8AiktjMaIE=; b=vTVRjJJv9j2yNUpUI8kvwxOdpB4zrhhn6eEV5Nn488gCn+HVwREicVpU9a/L2VNRnU bd8JPtMW7K7Bp73zUciDYfiyxWAPg8oLDk5H+LguhDK5Yr8uSqinMZlz+Ewp8FV5y6V5 8L/VNbd182VkoX6mca26dKWcHTshfVjI3lJ2k= Received: by 10.204.152.25 with SMTP id e25mr35283210bkw.51.1322238449580; Fri, 25 Nov 2011 08:27:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from [10.0.0.11] ([88.151.72.85]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id i3sm29038844faf.0.2011.11.25.08.27.27 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 25 Nov 2011 08:27:28 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4ECFC192.9000900@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2011 17:25:54 +0100 From: Jarry User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20110929 Thunderbird/7.0.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Partitioning strategy...? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 31222fb7-745b-4d4b-94f2-d8568f150978 X-Archives-Hash: a1874b980494915b9e1b53611671838e On 25-Nov-11 17:12, Pandu Poluan wrote: > / == 800 MiB > /boot == 20 MiB > /usr == 1800 MiB > /usr/portage == 2000 MiB > /var == 4000 MiB > /var/lib/postgresql == 1000 MiB I think it is more than wise to put /tmp on separate partition, and mount it with nodev/nosuid/noexec. Malware frequently use tmp to download & compile some bad tools and run them from there, as tmp is one of not many world-writable directories... Jarry -- _______________________________________________________________ This mailbox accepts e-mails only from selected mailing-lists! Everything else is considered to be spam and therefore deleted.