From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 2 10:18: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CF55412C for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2000 10:18:01 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA15474; Wed, 2 Feb 2000 09:56:55 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 09:56:55 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Marcelo Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Why to use seperate partitions Message-ID: <20000202095655.B26831@fw.wintelcom.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from bsdq@stgo.cl on Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 01:47:42PM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Marcelo [000202 09:19] wrote: > > Hello, > I have an 8 gig drive. 500m are swap since I have 256 in RAM. > The rest is all mounted on / > Is that bad? > I was critized by a peer for not having split up the drive and mount > individual partitions into /usr /var etc.. > > But since the server will not be used by anyone (webserver and webmail) I > am not concerned about users taking up space since they aren't any. > > But in general what is the rule of thumb on this? are there any speed > advantages to having seperat partitions? The idea is to make / as 'read-only' as possible, to facilitate a fast fsck if you come across any problems, also to provide for seperation from log files and other data files that may need to grow. Spamming your automated htaccess/password files because you forgot to turn of verbose httpd logging really stinks. Take your friend's advice next time. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message