From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 2 11:36:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mtiwmhc03.worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc03.worldnet.att.net [204.127.131.38]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AE1640A3 for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2000 11:36:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from atlanta ([12.78.205.35]) by mtiwmhc03.worldnet.att.net (InterMail v03.02.07.07 118-134) with ESMTP id <20000202193623.LVAW2478@atlanta> for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2000 19:36:23 +0000 Message-Id: <4.2.2.20000202142914.06520bd0@mail.threespace.com> X-Sender: tech_info@mail.threespace.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2000 14:36:09 -0500 To: FreeBSD Questions List From: Technical Information Subject: RE: Why to use seperate partitions In-Reply-To: <008701bf6dac$97b83ea0$020a0a0a@megared.net.mx> References: <20000202095655.B26831@fw.wintelcom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is all very understandable from the SysAdmin's point of view. But are there any comparable advantages for Joe Unix who is using his machine solo or with a few moderate users? And can't quotas be used to stop any rampant growth in particular areas? I'm not doing backups or anything like that on my personal system, and I never can predict which areas (e.g., var or tmp or usr) are going to grow the fastest. So I've also typically just installed everything into one large root [/] directory. For somebody without any experience or even a good idea of how a system may be used, directory subpartitioning seems like a hit-or-miss proposition at best. Heck, I wouldn't even know how much room to allocate to the theoretically immutable root directory.... K.-- At 01:37 PM 2/2/00 , you wrote: >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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message