Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 12:26:40 -0800 (PST) From: "f.johan.beisser" <jan@caustic.org> To: Technical Information <tech_info@threespace.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Why to use seperate partitions Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002021218320.289-100000@pogo.caustic.org> In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20000202142914.06520bd0@mail.threespace.com>
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On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Technical Information wrote: > 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? yes and no. quotas is for limiting users. it's a bit to much overhead for the system as a whole, in my opinion. if you have rampant growth in any area, it's likely caused not by the users, but rather by the logs. although i don't see a reason that they couldn't be used like that, i don't like having ot compile extra things on the kernel. > 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.... generally, you can just guess. a best guess is usually better than the worst choice. my own machines are usually set with 100mb to the root partition, 50mb to /var and the rest over to /usr. this limits the users ability to affect the machine, or to accidentally break it. --jan +-----/ f. johan beisser /------------------------------+ email: jan[at]caustic.org web: http://www.caustic.org/~jan "knowledge is power. power corrupts. study hard, be evil." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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