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Originally Posted by
maerlyngb
Is this different from distro to distro?
It seems to be quite different between Ubuntu and Redhat.
The default layout in Redhat is to have two disk partitions: one for /boot and one for LVM, and in LVM goes / and swap.
Neither Ubuntu or Redhat has (and I assume no distributions have) a separate partition for /home. Ideally the "home" directory should exist in one place and be automounted to the various servers where and when it's needed.
With the exception of /boot - if everything else is using LVM - there's no requirement to have any separate partitions for anything, even though it's desirable to do so for the reasons given.
It's also important to know which filesystems
should not be mounted on their own filesystems. Namely:
- /etc
- /bin
- /sbin
- /dev
- /lib
- /root
- /sbin
- /selinux