From owner-freebsd-arch Sat Dec 8 22:32:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from monorchid.lemis.com (monorchid.lemis.com [192.109.197.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E656537B405 for ; Sat, 8 Dec 2001 22:32:22 -0800 (PST) Received: by monorchid.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 035E1786E7; Sun, 9 Dec 2001 17:02:20 +1030 (CST) Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2001 17:02:20 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Bernd Walter Cc: Matthew Dillon , Jordan Hubbard , Garance A Drosihn , "Louis A. Mamakos" , Sheldon Hearn , Kirk McKusick , freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proposed auto-sizing patch to sysinstall (was Re: Using a larger block size on large filesystems) Message-ID: <20011209170220.E83634@monorchid.lemis.com> References: <49294.1007846108@winston.freebsd.org> <200112082211.fB8MBGm18685@apollo.backplane.com> <20011209013340.D6171@cicely8.cicely.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011209013340.D6171@cicely8.cicely.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday, 9 December 2001 at 1:33:40 +0100, Bernd Walter wrote: > On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 02:11:16PM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: >> Not only that, but blowing-out /var/tmp is relatively easy to do even >> on a single user system. The last thing you want to see is a full > > Not surprising with a softlink from /tmp to /var/tmp. It would surprise me if the symlink would be the problem. Typically /tmp is much smaller than /var/tmp. >> The same thing goes for /home, though in /home's case the >> reasoning is somewhat more ephermal. You get the same safety >> factor in regards to having a greater chance of recovering /usr >> after a crash if /home isn't sitting in /usr (/usr/home) (or >> sitting in root for that matter!). > > The traditional directory is /var/users but I prefer /var/home. The traditional directory is /usr. /var and /home came at the same time with System V.4 IIRC. I thought we were at least agreed that /home would be the correct name. > If you don't want a separate /home partition /var/users is the > better choice. /home is the place for system wide home directories > which are usualy non-local - therefor no need for a local partition. You can use it like that. It wasn't the original idea. One way or another, it makes sense to separate /usr (system files, including /usr/local) from /home (user files). That way you can upgrade just by replacing /usr. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message