Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 12:24:21 -0800 From: Beech Rintoul <beech@mangohealth.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Brendan Grossman <brendan@grossman.id.au> Subject: Re: /boot at beginning of drive Message-ID: <200604161224.32990.beech@mangohealth.org> In-Reply-To: <20060416195903.BB69B28454@porsche.brendan.id.au> References: <20060416195903.BB69B28454@porsche.brendan.id.au>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Sunday 16 April 2006 11:59, Brendan Grossman wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Glenn Dawson [mailto:glenn@antimatter.net] > > Sent: Monday, 17 April 2006 5:16 AM > > To: Brendan Grossman; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > Subject: Re: /boot at beginning of drive > > > > /boot has to be in the / file system. > > > > There's a rather lengthy thread about this a few months back > > if you search the archives. > > Think I found it... > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-questions/2005-July/092614.h >t ml > > That's not good then. I'm setting up a system with many users, who will > need access to /var and their /home. They will have quotas, so data in /var > + data in /home must be less than their quota. Obviously it's not a good > idea to create separate /var and /home partitions as for example, if say > /var filled up, the user won't be able to write to it, even though they are > "allowed" to since their quota hasn't been reached. > > Hmmm... Does /boot have to be in the first 1024 cylinders still? I could > adjust my scheme as such: > > swap 1gb > /tmp 500mb (mounted noexec,nosuid) > / remainder It's not a good idea to put everything on the / filesystem. At a minimum I would have: / swap /var /usr Your users will not fill up /var unless you allow them unlimited mail, databases or access to root. User's tempfiles will go to /usr/tmp. On a system with many users, you should consider a /home slice with quotas on that and your mailserver set to deliver mail to the users file. Remember not everyone is going to max out their filesystem so quotas can be set to reasonable values. There are many good reasons to separate those filesystems, disk performance and crashdumps being just two. Having many users is NOT a good reason to combine filesystems. You need to rethink your diskspace or add another drive for /home or /usr. The handbook has a good section on this. Beech -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - Sys. Administrator - beech@mangohealth.org /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Mangohealth \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | 201 East 9Th Avenue Ste.310 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99501 / \ - XanGo - http://www.mangohealth.org --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBEQqgA2TFLCHYGSF0RAoAgAJwJNnhrYj5UIe9PeBmDjz/WjDhQhgCeIW+T kvoxDCuX2nm8/YhnIxZYT+0= =/Bb6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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