Installing linux/140/en

Recommendations

• Use LVM
• Depending on your threat model, configure encrypted volumes.
• If you plan to install many programs not part of the your distribution create a separate /usr/local partition.
• You can put /tmp on its own partition with 20–100 MB.
• For multi-user systems or systems with lots of disk space you can put /usr, /var,/tmp, and /home each on their own partitions separate from the /partition. For very complex server systems see the Multi Disk HOWTO http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Multi-Disk-HOWTO.html
• If you are setting up a server with lots of user accounts, create a separate large/home partition.
• If your machine will be a mail server, you can make /var/mail a separate partition.