From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Jan 27 19:40:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA28965 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 19:40:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA28930 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 19:40:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA21800; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 14:08:35 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id OAA16875; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 14:08:35 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980128140835.25181@lemis.com> Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 14:08:35 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: jack Cc: John Kelly , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail - low on space References: <34cfac75.10985109@mail.cetlink.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84e In-Reply-To: ; from jack on Tue, Jan 27, 1998 at 10:33:02PM -0500 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Jan 27, 1998 at 10:33:02PM -0500, jack wrote: > 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. I think you're missing the point. Nobody's advocating doing away with the /usr file system. Greg