From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 30 7: 1:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hookie.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu (hookie.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu [134.129.125.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D46037B423 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 07:01:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from tinguely@localhost) by hookie.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu (8.9.3/8.8.8) id JAA20739; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 09:00:55 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from tinguely) Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 09:00:55 -0500 (CDT) From: mark tinguely Message-Id: <200008301400.JAA20739@hookie.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu> To: grog@lemis.com, tony@aracnet.com Subject: Re: Filesystem sizes for 4.x ? Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20000830155709.A34589@wantadilla.lemis.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG additional file system concerns. disk/controller traffic balance. if multiple drives and disk controllers are used you can place swaps, file systems on different drives to spread the I/O load. This is becoming less important today, since RAID is used on larger systems. disk quotas work for a partition. obviously users generally don't add files to /usr and in / with the exception of /tmp and /var. If quota management of these directories are needed, then they should be in a separate partition from /. /tmp and /var are also the directories that cause the root file system to overflow and cause the potential loss of important files. another special file system need is inodes. some file systems have many, tiny files (such as news spools). the file system that holds these tiny files needs to have special file systems with many more inodes created that would be a waste on general filesytems. remotely mounted file systems. only some subdirectory are needed to be mounted remotely. though it is possible to mount inside a larger partition it may be easier for maintenance to keep the mounted directories separate. --mark tinguely To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message