Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 16:29:04 -0600 From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <mountin.man@mixcom.com> To: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk>, lamaster@george.arc.nasa.gov Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail - low on space Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19980127162904.0070865c@198.137.186.100> In-Reply-To: <34CE5130.5FBD90A8@tdx.co.uk> References: <199801272034.MAA04209@george.arc.nasa.gov>
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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 <g> I'd be amazing if someone thought a 8.4 GB Maxtor would solve their needs. Can you say "full seek?" <sigh> 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... <g> 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
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