Unix Partitions
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Unix Partitions
I got into a discussion yesterday about partitions and Unix. Over the last year or so, the admin's have taken to installing just a / and /var. (one even didn't put in a /var but we fixed that one)
I'm very much of the thinking that you need:
/
/var
/<user/application>
at a minimum.
I'm not happy about users of machines being able to write to /
(users could be an application, such as oracle for example, I didn't really mean home accounts)
Having specified a Solaris build late last year, which was CHECK tested and only revealed 2 minor issues, and some of that specification related to disk partitions and security issues, I think I'm correct, and will enforce what I think.
But I'd be interested in other people's views on it before I throw my dummy out for people ignoring what I've put in a build documents.
I'm very much of the thinking that you need:
/
/var
/<user/application>
at a minimum.
I'm not happy about users of machines being able to write to /
(users could be an application, such as oracle for example, I didn't really mean home accounts)
Having specified a Solaris build late last year, which was CHECK tested and only revealed 2 minor issues, and some of that specification related to disk partitions and security issues, I think I'm correct, and will enforce what I think.
But I'd be interested in other people's views on it before I throw my dummy out for people ignoring what I've put in a build documents.
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Originally Posted by ^Qwerty^
I got into a discussion yesterday about partitions and Unix. Over the last year or so, the admin's have taken to installing just a / and /var. (one even didn't put in a /var but we fixed that one)
I'm very much of the thinking that you need:
/
/var
/<user/application>
at a minimum.
I'm not happy about users of machines being able to write to /
(users could be an application, such as oracle for example, I didn't really mean home accounts)
Having specified a Solaris build late last year, which was CHECK tested and only revealed 2 minor issues, and some of that specification related to disk partitions and security issues, I think I'm correct, and will enforce what I think.
But I'd be interested in other people's views on it before I throw my dummy out for people ignoring what I've put in a build documents.
I'm very much of the thinking that you need:
/
/var
/<user/application>
at a minimum.
I'm not happy about users of machines being able to write to /
(users could be an application, such as oracle for example, I didn't really mean home accounts)
Having specified a Solaris build late last year, which was CHECK tested and only revealed 2 minor issues, and some of that specification related to disk partitions and security issues, I think I'm correct, and will enforce what I think.
But I'd be interested in other people's views on it before I throw my dummy out for people ignoring what I've put in a build documents.
DBAs should really only have access to their files which lie usually in /usr/bin.
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