From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Jan 27 21:50:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA24906 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 21:50:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from germanium.xtalwind.net (germanium.xtalwind.net [205.160.242.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA24751 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 21:50:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jack@germanium.xtalwind.net) Received: from localhost (jack@localhost) by germanium.xtalwind.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id AAA12992; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 00:50:16 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 00:50:16 -0500 (EST) From: jack To: Greg Lehey cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail - low on space In-Reply-To: <19980128140835.25181@lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 28 Jan 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: > I think you're missing the point. Nobody's advocating doing away with > the /usr file system. I realize that. I just see no sense in doing the amount of writing that is normally done to /var done on the same slice that houses system files. Has it been forgotten that var is short for variable? For files that are constantly being changed? /usr is the user's playground, for their working files. Loose /var and it's not too traumatic. Loose /usr and you've got a problem. Loose / and you've got nothing to work with. With an intact / slice you can boot single user and rebuild the rest. A read only / is a nice added security measure, not foolproof but every little bit helps. :) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack O'Neill Systems Administrator / Systems Analyst jack@germanium.xtalwind.net Crystal Wind Communications, Inc. Finger jack@germanium.xtalwind.net for my PGP key. PGP Key fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD enriched, vcard, HTML messages > /dev/null --------------------------------------------------------------------------