From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Jan 27 19:33:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA27782 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 19:33:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from germanium.xtalwind.net (germanium.xtalwind.net [205.160.242.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA27776 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 19:33:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jack@germanium.xtalwind.net) Received: from localhost (jack@localhost) by germanium.xtalwind.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id WAA12315; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 22:33:02 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 22:33:02 -0500 (EST) From: jack To: John Kelly cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail - low on space In-Reply-To: <34cfac75.10985109@mail.cetlink.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 28 Jan 1998, John Kelly wrote: > On Tue, 27 Jan 1998 16:24:55 -0500 (EST), Andrew Webster > wrote: > > >I create my systems without a physical /var parition and symlink /var and > >/tmp into /usr/var and /usr/tmp respectively, this eliminates all > >problems, and you don't end up "wasting" lots of disk space for temporary > >files. > > I do the same thing on every install. > > >Can we make this the default of sysinstall? > > I would like it too. I wouldn't. > I see little benefit in a partition dedicated to /var. I do. I like the fact that the / partition, with the critical system files, is not written to each time a log entry is made, mail is received, accounting records the user's commands, etc. I like the fact that / can be mounted read only so clueless or malicious users can't touch it. I'd like to see /tmp made a link to /var/tmp by default. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack O'Neill Systems Administrator / Systems Analyst jack@germanium.xtalwind.net Crystal Wind Communications, Inc. Finger jack@germanium.xtalwind.net for my PGP key. PGP Key fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD enriched, vcard, HTML messages > /dev/null --------------------------------------------------------------------------