From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 6 20:48:14 2007 Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73F4016A401 for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Tue, 6 Mar 2007 20:48:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jerrymc@gizmo.acns.msu.edu) Received: from gizmo.acns.msu.edu (gizmo.acns.msu.edu [35.8.1.43]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AB0E13C4A5 for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Tue, 6 Mar 2007 20:48:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jerrymc@gizmo.acns.msu.edu) Received: from gizmo.acns.msu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gizmo.acns.msu.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l26KjKu1011060; Tue, 6 Mar 2007 15:45:20 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jerrymc@gizmo.acns.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by gizmo.acns.msu.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id l26KjKwm011059; Tue, 6 Mar 2007 15:45:20 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jerrymc) Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 15:45:20 -0500 From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> To: Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> Message-ID: <20070306204520.GA11027@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> References: <69af686f0703060819r557fea9cj22cd8c560f17e9a4@mail.gmail.com> <45EDABC0.2060306@daleco.biz> <20070306183951.GA9940@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <45EDC8B7.1050909@daleco.biz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <45EDC8B7.1050909@daleco.biz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: Joshua Kordani <joshua.kordani@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: using sysinstall upgrade as a repair solution X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org> List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions> List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe> X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 20:48:14 -0000 > >The fourth reason to have separate partitions is to make it easier > >to isolate things. You may want to make a certain amount of space > >available for users to write in, but want to keep them out of other > >space. There are various ways to do it. Having things grouped > >conveniently in some defined area makes it a little easier. > > > > What Jerry said ;-). Thanks for expressing what I couldn't OTTOMH. > > >>Incidentally, 150MB doesn't seem very large for a root partition IMHO. > >>I've not read the handbook recently, but I generally use a gig for /. > > > >If you divide out /var and /usr and /tmp and /home, then 150 MB is > >plenty for root. I am currently using about 120 MB on this machine > >which is due a good cleanup. > > I only partition /, /var/, and /usr/, so /tmp stays in the root slice; I > make mention of this fact (150M being small) because of the > previously-mentioned case in which installworld puked because / was full > (this *was* with a separate /tmp) and there was nothing really there > except default stuff (had been a DesktopBSD system, maybe someone with > more experience there could comment). The box was going from 5.3 under > an (older) DesktopBSD test install to FBSD 6.2; I worked 'round the > issue by moving /stand, but ended up re-installing 6.2 from CD to give a > slightly more junior guy more experience with sysinstall (AAMOF I've > made him do it on two boxen today, heh heh heh).... Hmmm. /tmp is definitely one thing I would take out of / and put in its own partition - or at least in some other big scratch space. It can easily get filled with stuff which then goes away. But if it overfills /, it can bring the system to its knees. If it overfills its own system, it can make things slow to a standstill, but usually you can still get in with root and nuke enough to continue and at least shut things down gracefully. ////jerry > > Kevin Kinsey > -- > Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. > -- John Lennon, Beautiful Boy