From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Jan 27 12:38:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA03247 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 12:38:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from george.arc.nasa.gov (george.arc.nasa.gov [128.102.194.142]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA03219 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 12:38:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lamaster@george.arc.nasa.gov) From: lamaster@george.arc.nasa.gov Received: (from lamaster@localhost) by george.arc.nasa.gov (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA04209; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 12:34:26 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 12:34:26 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199801272034.MAA04209@george.arc.nasa.gov> To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail - low on space Cc: lamaster@george.arc.nasa.gov Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org |>> At 07:18 PM 1/27/98 +0000, Damian Hamill wrote: |>> >Mark Segal wrote: |>> >> dennis wrote: |>> >> will proably see the disk usage on /var is really high like 90%+ this is |>> >> probably do to some user with 14 megs of email.. :) |>> > |>> >Yes consider moving your mail queue (/var/spool/mqueue) to your /usr |>> >partition and symlinking to it. |>> |>> Unless disk IO and space is an issue, where a nth disk |>> is mounted a /var, I symlink the entire /var to /usr/var |>> when installing. No sense deciding how much to reserve for |>> /var and /usr and more economical for single disk installs. I know it is unfashionable right now to say this, and, each to his own taste, but, /var was created for a reason. The reason hasn't really gone away. I think it in multiple-user environments it is good planning to decide how much to reserve in advance for, e.g., the user mail input queues. As well as user home directories and other similar requirements. In other words, while the original user needs help and probably doesn't feel like re-partitioning the disk at this point, in general, I recommend planning the /var partition in advance and partitioning the disk accordingly. The FreeBSD sysinstall defaults are reasonable for smallish disks, but most people have more memory and bigger disks today, and would benefit from generally larger partitions (including swap). But, the basic partitioning is very reasonable; the default sizes for /, swap, and /var, should probably be larger for larger disks. -Hugh LaMaster Hugh LaMaster, M/S 258-5, ASCII Email: hlamaster@mail.arc.nasa.gov NASA Ames Research Center Or: lamaster@nas.nasa.gov Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000 No Junkmail: USC 18 section 2701 Phone: 415/604-1056 Disclaimer: Unofficial, personal *opinion*.