From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 16 20:38:25 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 959E016A412 for ; Sun, 16 Apr 2006 20:38:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brendan@grossman.id.au) Received: from porsche.brendan.id.au (219-90-174-213.ip.adam.com.au [219.90.174.213]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 081AA43D46 for ; Sun, 16 Apr 2006 20:38:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from brendan@grossman.id.au) Received: from dvditnb1 (mint.brendan.local [192.168.2.10]) by porsche.brendan.id.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA96F28469 for ; Mon, 17 Apr 2006 06:08:23 +0930 (CST) From: "Brendan Grossman" To: Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 06:08:31 +0930 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.5510 Thread-Index: AcZhk8kuQyUCbF7GTQ+mr6g4xqcUwgAAEabQ X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 In-Reply-To: <200604161224.32990.beech@mangohealth.org> Message-Id: <20060416203823.BA96F28469@porsche.brendan.id.au> 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 20:38:25 -0000 > 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. They will have unlimited access up until their quota has been reached. Where they use that quota is anyone's guess. > User's tempfiles will go to /usr/tmp. How does that work? I just checked /tmp, and it's not a symlink. > 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. I agree that it's not a great idea, but considering the software I'm using, user files are stored in /var and /home. I don't know what percentage of quotas users will use for emails, databases, or home dirs, and I don't want to take a guess. If say they were to use a lot of their quota for databases, then down the track I don't want to have the problem with /var full but users still under their quota. By the way just did an install, and it boots fine with the swap, /tmp, / structure. Cheers Brendan