What are the best practices for Linux partitioning & Mount points for Production systems

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Hi

i need some suggestion for defining the partition size for my production systems.� we are going to use CentOS 6.2 (64 bit)

- Partition size
- Mount points

What i am able to get from the google search is:

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/work���� to do your work here "you can name it anything"
Swap

• /home - Set option nosuid, and nodev with diskquota option
• /usr - Set option nodev
• /tmp - Set option nodev, nosuid, noexec option must be enabled
• /var�� local,nodev,nosuid

Most of the server will be running
- Apache
-Tomcat
-SOLR

and few of them would be running MySQL as data base.


what is concern is that one of the developer accidentally deleted the /usr files with sudo access. if somehow i can protect the core system from the developers mistake that would be really good.

Thanks in advance for help.