From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 17 21:45:33 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA21785 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 21:45:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from misery.sdf.com (misery.sdf.com [204.244.210.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id VAA21775 for ; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 21:45:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tom@sdf.com) Received: from tom by misery.sdf.com with smtp (Exim 1.73 #1) id 0xXgMS-00066Q-00; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 21:38:08 -0800 Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 21:38:06 -0800 (PST) From: Tom To: "Craig W. Shaver" cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Partitioning suggestions? In-Reply-To: <34711F6E.BCCE8D9B@progroup.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, Craig W. Shaver wrote: > chuckr@glue.umd.edu wrote: > > > del ... > > > > A friend who programs a lot shocked me by saying that she regularly > > installs just one big partition, for /,/usr/ the whole works. I'd > > never done that myself, but I've been trying to come up with some solid > > reason why it's a bad idea. > > > I think the original reasoning among sysadmins was to break up the file > systems so that they could be backed up to tape easily. Tape size being > somewhat on the small side at one time. So 60mb to 150mb file systems > were the norm. I like to put / and /usr under 1 2g disk. That includes Huh? Backup tools have supported multiple tapes for a _long_ time. The real reason, is compartmentalizing functions. If one file system fills up, it doesn't bring down the entire system. For example, if '/' has no space, you won't even be able to change passwords. You want specific functions to be isolated to prevent such problems. This is only a real concern on server systems. On a desktop system, one big filesystem works ok. ... > The idea of using MFS mounted /tmp is appealing. How do you do that? > Is there some documentation on that? Yes, the manpages. The appeal factor depends on what you use /tmp for. I'll to like to quotas on /tmp to make sure users don't use it all it up. I also, use "-pipe" on gcc, so the compiler doesn't even use /tmp for anything. > Thanks, > > -- > Craig Shaver (craig@progroup.com) (415)390-0654 > Productivity Group POB 60458 Sunnyvale, CA 94088 > > Tom