Looking for Advice on Debian Server Setup

[James Finstrom]

This was discussed a week or so ago (sorta). Generaly you want to keep
home on it's own partition. Never seen the rest but could see some
logic with var and opt not really tmp

On 4/27/09, Mark Phillips <mark at phillipsmarketing.biz> wrote:
> I am setting up a new server for Plone/Zope sites on a Linode VPS. Reading
> the "Securing Debian Manual" (
> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/), it recommends
> separate partitions for /tmp, /home, /opt, and /var. I was talking with some
> of the Linode folks on IRC to find out how to set up separate partitions,
> and they felt that it was unnecessary to have separate partitions for a
> production server (regardless if it is on Linode or not).
>
> I am interested in any opinions on the subject from this list.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Mark
>

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