From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Jan 27 14:33:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA00859 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 14:33:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mixcom.mixcom.com (mixcom.mixcom.com [198.137.186.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA00817 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 14:33:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mountin.man@mixcom.com) Received: by mixcom.mixcom.com (8.6.12/2.2) id QAA15076; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 16:34:27 -0600 Received: from dial193-21.mixcom.com(207.250.193.21) by mixcom.mixcom.com via smap (V1.3) id sma015054; Tue Jan 27 16:34:25 1998 Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.19980127162904.0070865c@198.137.186.100> X-Sender: mmttnn@198.137.186.100 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 16:29:04 -0600 To: Karl Pielorz , lamaster@george.arc.nasa.gov From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" Subject: Re: Sendmail - low on space Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <34CE5130.5FBD90A8@tdx.co.uk> References: <199801272034.MAA04209@george.arc.nasa.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 09:27 PM 1/27/98 +0000, Karl Pielorz wrote: >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 I'd be amazing if someone thought a 8.4 GB Maxtor would solve their needs. Can you say "full seek?" One thing about leaving space for a future partition. If one drive should fail, you can create a filesystem on the free space to restore the backup to. When things slow down or downtime is scheduled, then you go for the real cleanup. >(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... My ex-boss disregarded my requests. Now the mail spool is filling up on a regular basis. Quite irritating. And it's been going on for 2 months now pending a change to, EEEK!, NT. Did I mention that my mail service will be changing. :O Jeff Mountin - Unix Systems TCP/IP networking mountin.man@mixcom.com