From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 21 22:17:49 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26E2B16A404 for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2007 22:17:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.172]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5A9113C467 for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2007 22:17:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id o2so824976uge for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2007 14:17:47 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=glVD/8teQlLeBKNImNCsA95aKYNPTNMs/WS5EHAw7nTmm1kAOalbiQKZJMs2Gr9/GM1C12FSkxZZgEY9DjpnKs59rw+tDdhbOhVtNCKveQdVJX9xJx5AJ0136WKoT5JeEPEZP8AawkKlG1hLTgO4sM+7gdETXkB5tCKo5MRvLuU= Received: by 10.82.184.2 with SMTP id h2mr5289999buf.1169417867116; Sun, 21 Jan 2007 14:17:47 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.82.176.4 with HTTP; Sun, 21 Jan 2007 14:17:47 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 16:17:47 -0600 From: "illoai@gmail.com" To: "Garrett Cooper" In-Reply-To: <45B3E0D0.70005@u.washington.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <45B3E0D0.70005@u.washington.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: more than 7 partitions on a SCSI-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, 21 Jan 2007 22:17:49 -0000 On 21/01/07, Garrett Cooper wrote: > > Jeff Mohler wrote: > > On 1/21/07, Christian Baer wrote: > >> problem is that I can't allocate another partition > > One good reason I can think of is to partition (not the tech definition > but the traditional definition, "to divide") filesystems such that if > one person fills up "/", it won't cause a program that needs to write to > "/var" or "/tmp" problems, which in the case of "/var" can bring down > entire systems and infrastructures (happened before where I was working > as IT when a CUPS server ran out of space on /var). Run-away programs certainly are a reason. Also (and more so with 500G+ drives) only root must fsck before the system is brought up, so you can get the system to a (somewhat) useable state more quickly than if you had to fsck the whole lot at one go. On systems that have myriads of arbitrarily sized files which grow and shrink (larger MUDs are subject to this, I know, probably many other games with local user files as well) you can defrag with a simple tar jcf, rm -r, tar jxf. Enforcement of certain security rules (noexec, nosuid) is simpler and easier when the directories are seperated onto their own filesystems. NFS is more straightforward as well. Hard drives rarely fail catastrophically, and moving the affected information may be eased (or at least I have found it so) by careful partitioning. -- --