From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 16 20:24:40 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0C3316A419 for ; Sun, 16 Apr 2006 20:24:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from beech@mangohealth.org) Received: from pinnacle.akherb.com (94-37-237-24.gci.net [24.237.37.94]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57F5E43D4C for ; Sun, 16 Apr 2006 20:24:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from beech@mangohealth.org) Received: by pinnacle.akherb.com (Postfix, from userid 1007) id ACD135D01; Sun, 16 Apr 2006 12:24:36 -0800 (AKDT) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.1 (2006-03-10) on pinnacle.akherb.com X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=4.0 tests=AWL autolearn=ham version=3.1.1 Received: from [192.168.2.160] (209-124-141-064.ip.arctic.net [209.124.141.64]) by pinnacle.akherb.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 010D15C9B; Sun, 16 Apr 2006 12:24:35 -0800 (AKDT) From: Beech Rintoul Organization: Mangohealth To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 12:24:21 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <20060416195903.BB69B28454@porsche.brendan.id.au> In-Reply-To: <20060416195903.BB69B28454@porsche.brendan.id.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart9544834.vJdRjqUp1T"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200604161224.32990.beech@mangohealth.org> Cc: Brendan Grossman Subject: Re: /boot at beginning of drive X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 20:24:40 -0000 --nextPart9544834.vJdRjqUp1T Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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= =2Eh >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 /v= ar > + 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 a= re > "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,=20 databases or access to root. User's tempfiles will go to /usr/tmp. On a=20 system with many users, you should consider a /home slice with quotas on th= at=20 and your mailserver set to deliver mail to the users file. Remember not=20 everyone is going to max out their filesystem so quotas can be set to=20 reasonable values. There are many good reasons to separate those filesystem= s,=20 disk performance and crashdumps being just two. Having many users is NOT a= =20 good reason to combine filesystems. You need to rethink your diskspace or a= dd=20 another drive for /home or /usr. The handbook has a good section on this.=20 Beech =2D-=20 =2D------------------------------------------------------------------------= =2D------------- 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 =2D------------------------------------------------------------------------= =2D------------- --nextPart9544834.vJdRjqUp1T Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBEQqgA2TFLCHYGSF0RAoAgAJwJNnhrYj5UIe9PeBmDjz/WjDhQhgCeIW+T kvoxDCuX2nm8/YhnIxZYT+0= =/Bb6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart9544834.vJdRjqUp1T--