From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 31 18:53:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from jig.ordway.org (jig.ordway.org [209.98.93.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A759D14C7F for ; Wed, 31 Mar 1999 18:53:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cpalmer@jig.ordway.org) Received: from localhost (cpalmer@localhost) by jig.ordway.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA01157; Wed, 31 Mar 1999 20:53:03 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from cpalmer@jig.ordway.org) Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 20:53:03 -0600 (CST) From: Christopher Palmer To: Greg Lehey Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FS sizes for a small web/mail server? In-Reply-To: <19990401121208.P413@lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > You apparently missed the beginning of this thread. I strongly > discouraged (and discourage) the use of small additional file systems. I didn't miss the beginning of the thread. I just disagree with you. :^) > You're bound to find that you fill one up and have space left over in > another, and before you know it you're going to end up with a symlink > jungle. Perhaps in some cases. But in this case, we're talking about a /var that is ~10MB. This is not likely to hurt the bigger filesystems. Quotas are one way to do it. but I like physical constraints more than software constraints. Christopher Palmer Assistant Systems Administrator, Ordway Music Theatre cpalmer@jig.ordway.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message