From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 4 21:26:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.pwhsnet.com (adsl-64-172-150-2.dsl.scrm01.pacbell.net [64.172.150.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BF6137B402 for ; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 21:26:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from zeus (patrick@zeus.pwhsnet.com [192.168.0.3] (may be forged)) by apollo.pwhsnet.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g255Rrx19503; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 21:27:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from patrick@pwhsnet.com) Message-ID: <002001c1c406$48250c80$0300a8c0@zeus> From: "Patrick Fish" To: "Brian T.Schellenberger" , References: <001a01c1c402$4be71a60$0300a8c0@zeus> <20020305051459.83215BA03@i8k.babbleon.org> Subject: Re: filesystems Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 21:26:19 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4910.0300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >Another drawback is that if a process goes insane and >consume infinite /tmp >space it gets to eat the entire HD before it stops. For >these reasons I >partition /var, /tmp, and /home to their own space, as well >as a /ext >parition for "big junk" that I want to back up and /more for >"big junk" that >I don't. I dont need to worry about disk space, 99.9% of my users have quotas on / - Patrick Fish - patrick at pwhsnet dot com PWHS Networks - http://www.pwhsnet.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian T.Schellenberger" To: "Patrick Fish" ; Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 9:14 PM Subject: Re: filesystems > On Monday 04 March 2002 11:57 pm, Patrick Fish wrote: > > My disk layout looks like this: > > > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > > /dev/ad0s1a 18G 2.7G 14G 16% / > > procfs 4.0K 4.0K 0B 100% /proc > > > > > > ........ > > Would it be a good idea to break the major dirs into seperate partitions? > > I prefer it that way, but it's simpler in many ways to just have one--you > never wind up shuffling bits of your system around when the ratio between > partition sizes turns out to be wrong. > > The big drawback is that if your f/s ever gets trashed, *everything* is gone, > including the partition that you might have wanted to stick around to > facilitate recovery. > > Another drawback is that if a process goes insane and consume infinite /tmp > space it gets to eat the entire HD before it stops. For these reasons I > partition /var, /tmp, and /home to their own space, as well as a /ext > parition for "big junk" that I want to back up and /more for "big junk" that > I don't. > > OTOH, I don't separate out /usr, and almost eveerybody else does. It seems > just as "system"ish as / to me. YMMV. > > > If so, could i do this with fdisk WITHOUT reformatting? - > > No. Which is why I'd just leave well enough alone & keep good backups until > I had some other reason to re-install, unless your system is brand-new and > you haven't customized much of anything. > > > > Patrick Fish - patrick at pwhsnet dot com > > PWHS Networks - http://www.pwhsnet.com > > > > > > --- > > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > > Version: 6.0.325 / Virus Database: 182 - Release Date: 2/19/2002 > > -- > Brian T. Schellenberger . . . . . . . bts@wnt.sas.com (work) > Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) > ME --> http://www.babbleon.org > http://www.eff.org <-- GOOD GUYS --> http://www.programming-freedom.org > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.325 / Virus Database: 182 - Release Date: 2/19/2002 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message