From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 20 19:55:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA28156 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 20 May 1998 19:55:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from voicenet.com (mail12.voicenet.com [207.103.0.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA28042 for ; Wed, 20 May 1998 19:54:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from schwenk@voicenet.com) Received: (qmail 8044 invoked from network); 21 May 1998 02:54:20 -0000 Received: from rotary850-pri.voicenet.com (HELO voicenet.com) (209.71.53.50) by mail12.voicenet.com with SMTP; 21 May 1998 02:54:20 -0000 Message-ID: <3563985C.79AC9FB7@voicenet.com> Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 22:58:36 -0400 From: Peter Schwenk Organization: Schwenk X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-STABLE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Brian O'Connor" CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: seperate / /usr and /var partitions References: <199805202311.JAA24553@ironbark.bendigo.latrobe.edu.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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