From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 28 5: 4:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from iaces.com (horton.iaces.com [204.147.87.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75B5215A6D for ; Fri, 28 May 1999 05:04:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from proot@iaces.com) Received: (from proot@localhost) by iaces.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id HAA11817; Fri, 28 May 1999 07:03:47 -0500 (CDT) From: "Paul T. Root" Message-Id: <199905281203.HAA11817@iaces.com> Subject: Re: / getting a bit full.....help.. In-Reply-To: <374DE35E.F4EDC616@jaxx.net> from Steve Doty at "May 27, 99 05:29:18 pm" To: sdoty@jaxx.net (Steve Doty) Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 07:03:47 -0500 (CDT) Cc: c.raven@ukonline.co.uk, andrew@cream.org, questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Organization: USWEST !nterprise Networking - ACES X-Phone: (612) 664-3385 X-Fax: (612) 664-4779 X-Page: (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7270 X-Address: 600 Stinson Blvd, Fl 1S X-Address: Minneapolis, MN 55413 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In a previous message, Steve Doty said: > > > "Chris R." wrote: > > > > Andrew Boothman wrote: > > > > > > Bill Woods wrote: > > > > > > > > I have already moved /var/log > > > > > > > > any more ideas...... > > > > > > Erm. I don't know if I'm being stupid here but, /var/log isn't on the / > > > partition, it's on the /var partition so how is moving it going to help? > > > > > > > Doesn't that depend really on whether a seperate /var partition was made > > when the OS was installed? If it wasn't I thought it defaulted to the > > root partition / > > > > There are (I thought?) warnings about the dangers of this on heavy mail > > using setups etc. > > > > CR > > > > I don't think the setup has a warning about the auto partition option. > There should be though. I have had to redo other peoples machines > because they use that option and it only gives you about 25megs on /var > which is not enough with logs and mail files. > Is there really a benefit to have different partitions on one disk > anyway. I always set the whole drive to / minus a swap partition. There are at least a couple of reasons to partition. 1) when the machine takes a hit, the entire disk isn't nessarily affected. 2) You have more than one disk. 3) You have a smaller tape drive and need to make backups fit. 4) You like it that way. -- Be alert! We need more lerts. -- Jay Goldberg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message