From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 2 11: 3: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from unix.megared.net.mx (megamail.megared.com.mx [207.249.162.252]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AA14412A for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2000 11:02:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from ales (ales.megared.net.mx [207.249.163.251]) by unix.megared.net.mx (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA01054; Wed, 2 Feb 2000 12:36:15 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from ales@megared.net.mx) Message-ID: <008701bf6dac$97b83ea0$020a0a0a@megared.net.mx> From: "Alejandro Ramirez" To: "Alfred Perlstein" , "Marcelo" Cc: References: <20000202095655.B26831@fw.wintelcom.net> Subject: RE: Why to use seperate partitions Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 12:37:43 -0600 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, There its no speed advantage in separating partitions, the best advantage its to have things cleanly ordered, and make backups of what you really need, you certanly dont want to backup /tmp right, or backing up /, /var or /usr all the time, just maybe /home (users home), or the Database partition, also when you have a disk failure, or you lost some partition, recovering its easier and faster. Greetings Ales > * 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message