Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 21:27:12 +0000 From: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk> To: lamaster@george.arc.nasa.gov Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail - low on space Message-ID: <34CE5130.5FBD90A8@tdx.co.uk> References: <199801272034.MAA04209@george.arc.nasa.gov>
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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 <g> (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... <g> 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.
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