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

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:

/ Root File System (/bin , /sbin , /dev , /root /usr program and source code /var variable data /boot boot kernels /tmp temp file locations /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.