From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Jan 27 13:29:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA16345 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 13:29:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from caladan.tdx.co.uk (caladan.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA16274 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 13:29:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Received: from tdx.co.uk (lorca-tx.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.242]) by caladan.tdx.co.uk (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA02966; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 21:27:12 GMT (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Message-ID: <34CE5130.5FBD90A8@tdx.co.uk> Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 21:27:12 +0000 From: Karl Pielorz Organization: TDX X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lamaster@george.arc.nasa.gov CC: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail - low on space References: <199801272034.MAA04209@george.arc.nasa.gov> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I would tend to agree... On our large disks we anticipated having a lot of mail users, and made /var a very large partition accordingly... I've also found it's normally better to split the disk up into a few partitions, if you loose say, /usr - the system will still come up - and can be quite manageable with a little forward planning ;-) Whereas if everything is on a '/' file system - and you loose it - you have a lot of stuff to put back in 1 go, usually in a hurry (Touch Wood) We have not run out of /var space at all - some would think 'wasted diskspace', others would say 'careful planning, and accounting of costs vs. risk vs. space' :-) My boss thinks costs... I tend to think trouble when it breaks... Regards, Kp lamaster@george.arc.nasa.gov wrote: > 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.