/boot at beginning of drive

[Brendan Grossman]

> > > 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?
> 
> I think it unlikely that mounting /tmp on the swap partition 
> will work, because swap isn't a filesystem in the usual sense 
> of the word.

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