Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 22:58:36 -0400 From: Peter Schwenk <schwenk@voicenet.com> To: "Brian O'Connor" <boc@ironbark.bendigo.latrobe.edu.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: seperate / /usr and /var partitions Message-ID: <3563985C.79AC9FB7@voicenet.com> References: <199805202311.JAA24553@ironbark.bendigo.latrobe.edu.au>
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Hello Brian, I always thought is was so that filling up the spooling/log directories (in /var) doesn't bring your whole operation down. I guess running out of space is bad no matter how you slice it. Maybe having a single / partition isn't such a bad idea in the day and age of huge disks? Brian O'Connor wrote: > 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 -- Peter Schwenk schwenk@voicenet.com FreeBSD - FreeBSD - FreeBSD - FreeBSD - FreeBSD - FreeBSD - FreeBSD - FreeBSD Visit www.FreeBSD.ORG ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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