/boot at beginning of drive

[Jerry McAllister]

> 
> > Databases are stored in /var/db for security reasons
> 
> Just curious... What are the security reasons? After some thought, here's
> what I'm planning on doing... 
> 
> Disk is 73gb scsi...
> 
> /	500mb
> swap	4gb
> /var	4gb
> /usr	4gb
> /home	remainder (about 60gb)
> 
> then /var/db/mysql -> /home/mysql
> 
> and /tmp on swap
> 
> Any possible issues with this?

That is just fine, except I would make a small partition for /tmp
maybe 512 MB rather than trying to do the /tmp on swap thing.
It will be easier to work with if some problem comes up and you
want to go fishing around.

////jerry

> 
> Cheers
> Brendan
>