From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 20 16:12:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA20458 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 20 May 1998 16:12:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ironbark.bendigo.latrobe.edu.au (boc@ironbark.bendigo.latrobe.edu.au [149.144.21.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA20372 for ; Wed, 20 May 1998 16:12:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from boc@ironbark.bendigo.latrobe.edu.au) Received: (from boc@localhost) by ironbark.bendigo.latrobe.edu.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA24553 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 21 May 1998 09:11:42 +1000 (EST) From: "Brian O'Connor" Message-Id: <199805202311.JAA24553@ironbark.bendigo.latrobe.edu.au> Subject: seperate / /usr and /var partitions To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 09:11:42 +1000 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I admin a medium size network of SGI machines, as well as a couple of DEC and SUN servers and an increasing number of FreeBSD and Linux boxes. All my training, and most of my experience has been with either IRIX or Digital(or should that be Compaq) Unix. One of the many differences(advantages?) between IRIX and other Unixes? is that by default the IRIX install creates a single root partition, ie no seperate /var or /usr partitions. Three or four times now I have had problems with the DEC,SUN and FreeBSD servers in that the /var partition fills up, and/or the root partition is too small(esp with DEC OS upgrades, the new V4.x needs a bigger / partion). I feel ridiculous hunting for free disk on a 64MB / partion of a 36GB raid array on the DEC 2100. I have just setup a new freeBSD(2.2.6)server(1.5GB disk), and this time configured it with a single root partion. The install process warned me about this, asking me if I was sure that I new what I was doing. I think I'm sure. Are there technical reasons for the seperate partions beyond the classic need for a nfs mounted /usr(not applicable here). boc -- Brian O'Connor, Unix Systems Consultant La Trobe University,Bendigo,Australia; b.oconnor@latrobe.edu.au http://ironbark.bendigo.latrobe.edu.au/~boc/resume.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message