From owner-cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 15 00:12:30 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9FE716A41F; Thu, 15 Sep 2005 00:12:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from ext-gw.lemis.com (ext-gw.lemis.com [150.101.14.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76B7543D46; Thu, 15 Sep 2005 00:12:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.135]) by ext-gw.lemis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73744131D53; Thu, 15 Sep 2005 09:42:28 +0930 (CST) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 4DD6E84F7E; Thu, 15 Sep 2005 09:42:28 +0930 (CST) Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 09:42:28 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Marcel Moolenaar Message-ID: <20050915001228.GC38674@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <0D07312F-7DDB-40E4-A63A-3E00969F5A4C@xcllnt.net> <20050911002229.51F4916A471@hub.freebsd.org> <432382BC.5080105@root.org> <200509110310.36423@harrymail> <43255152.3000609@freebsd.org> <20050912165518.GA94181@dragon.NUXI.org> <20050913125820.GA10663@FreeBSD.org> <20050914100957.L33820@fledge.watson.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="YjUCIDG0UL7zSTfa" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <0D07312F-7DDB-40E4-A63A-3E00969F5A4C@xcllnt.net> <20050914100957.L33820@fledge.watson.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i 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: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Cc: Alexey Dokuchaev , src-committers@FreeBSD.org, Brooks Davis , cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Garance A Drosehn Subject: Unifying partitions (was: cvs commit: src/sys/conf kern.post.mk) X-BeenThere: cvs-src@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the src tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 00:12:31 -0000 --YjUCIDG0UL7zSTfa Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday, 14 September 2005 at 9:27:11 -0700, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > On Sep 14, 2005, at 8:53 AM, Brooks Davis wrote: > >> I've also hit cases where the log come in so fast that you can fill a >> 1GB /var fast enough that newsyslog never has a chance to compress the >> log. > > Just so that people realize: what is being described is not an > argument for having /var be a separate partition, but really for > having /var/log be a separate partition. Brooks' argument, yes. rwatson's argument was for mail. The recommendation I made was to put /var in the root file system *unless there are good reasons not to do so*. The issue here is that automatic partitioning can't take your usage patterns into account. Where you do need large a /var, it makes sense to have a separate partition. But most people create a separate /var, usually too big or too small, because that's the way it's done. FWIW, I don't use a separate /var on any of my systems, though there's certainly an argument to do so. But I haven't run out of space. Note also that in this case, an alternative to a separate partition is to set up quotas. Not that I do that, either. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --YjUCIDG0UL7zSTfa Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDKLxsIubykFB6QiMRAqjTAJ9obaw4TqAo2VViNlZaoFYzX8XYVgCfYHCu FSO8ENhjQWZaYKVPkc7cIBo= =cl0Y -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --YjUCIDG0UL7zSTfa--