Sameer Shinde spewed into the ether: <snip>

Don't ask me to read how-tos. I want to discusses this point with you as I found variation in the suggestion in various ppls.

No HOWTOs. http://www.pathname.com/fhs/ Lots of reasoning there (and its a standard too).

<snip>

During the installation, once linux dispelled a message that, your /(root) partition should not be less than 250MB.

I have / with 100 MB and I can still install deadrat on that. Its a matter of what you install and stuff.

I personally use /,/boot,/usr,/var,/usr/local,/home,/tmp, swap (and maybe /opt). Mount /usr, / and /boot as readonly, maybe /usr/local too (unless you keep installing software like I do.

But then what about other partitions, like /home, /var, /dev /tmp & other. What they are used for?

See that URL I mentioned.

One more....... & in which order they should be mounted? which is the 1st & which one is last?

/ first, then the others, in any order you wish. /bin/mount *MUST* be present in /, /usr need not be mounted for lots of reasons.

Devdas Bhagat

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