Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 12:48:51 -0800 From: Beech Rintoul <beech@mangohealth.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Brendan Grossman <brendan@grossman.id.au> Subject: Re: /boot at beginning of drive Message-ID: <200604161249.09909.beech@mangohealth.org> In-Reply-To: <20060416203823.BA96F28469@porsche.brendan.id.au> References: <20060416203823.BA96F28469@porsche.brendan.id.au>
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--nextPart2130004.vNLMAINGFq Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sunday 16 April 2006 12:38, Brendan Grossman wrote: > > It's not a good idea to put everything on the / filesystem. > > At a minimum I would have: > > / > > swap > > /var > > /usr > > > > Your users will not fill up /var unless you allow them > > unlimited mail, databases or access to root. > > They will have unlimited access up until their quota has been reached. > Where they use that quota is anyone's guess. > > > User's tempfiles will go to /usr/tmp. > > How does that work? I just checked /tmp, and it's not a symlink. Copy the contents of /tmp to /usr/tmp then remove /tmp and symlink /usr/tmp= =20 to /tmp. > > > On a system with many users, you should > > consider a /home slice with quotas on that and your > > mailserver set to deliver mail to the users file. Remember > > not everyone is going to max out their filesystem so quotas > > can be set to reasonable values. There are many good reasons > > to separate those filesystems, disk performance and > > crashdumps being just two. Having many users is NOT a good > > reason to combine filesystems. You need to rethink your > > diskspace or add another drive for /home or /usr. The > > handbook has a good section on this. > > I agree that it's not a great idea, but considering the software I'm usin= g, > user files are stored in /var and /home. I don't know what percentage of > quotas users will use for emails, databases, or home dirs, and I don't wa= nt > to take a guess. If say they were to use a lot of their quota for > databases, then down the track I don't want to have the problem with /var > full but users still under their quota. > > By the way just did an install, and it boots fine with the swap, /tmp, / > structure. > > Cheers > Brendan > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" =2D-=20 =2D------------------------------------------------------------------------= =2D------------- Beech Rintoul - Sys. Administrator - beech@mangohealth.org /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Mangohealth \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | 201 East 9Th Avenue Ste.310 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99501 / \ - XanGo - http://www.mangohealth.org =2D------------------------------------------------------------------------= =2D------------- --nextPart2130004.vNLMAINGFq Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBEQq3F2TFLCHYGSF0RAg7pAJ9gtd5q8jXSjVJ72HeQ7vYliy/vjQCfQNsC Z252iRGlYN6B0eME7WDbbp8= =EhEG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2130004.vNLMAINGFq--
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