From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Jan 27 21:06:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA15876 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 21:06:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns2.cetlink.net (root@ns2.cetlink.net [209.54.54.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA15858 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 21:06:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jak@cetlink.net) Received: from hot1.auctionfever.com (ts1-cltnc-16.cetlink.net [209.54.58.16]) by ns2.cetlink.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA27179; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 23:22:16 -0500 (EST) From: jak@cetlink.net (John Kelly) To: jack@germanium.xtalwind.net Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail - low on space Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 05:22:44 GMT Message-ID: <34d4bf15.15742383@mail.cetlink.net> References: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.01/16.397 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id VAA15867 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 27 Jan 1998 22:33:02 -0500 (EST), 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 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 Please read the message again. Root (/) will still have its own parition. The separate /var partition is the one we're suggesting to eliminate by consolidating it inside /usr. ------- The day of the proprietary OS is over. Long live free software.