Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 10:30:49 -0400 From: Alan Clegg <abc@bsdi.com> To: Michel Talon <michel@lpthe.jussieu.fr> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Space Message-ID: <20000929103049.D16250@diskfarm.firehouse.net> In-Reply-To: <20000929095501.A474@lpthe.jussieu.fr>; from michel@lpthe.jussieu.fr on Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 09:55:01AM %2B0200 References: <200009281759.e8SHx2573258@voyager.bxscience.edu> <Pine.BSF.4.05.10009281510400.8339-100000@shell.uniserve.ca> <20000929095501.A474@lpthe.jussieu.fr>
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Unless the network is lying to me again, Michel Talon said:
> This points once more that
> partionning / is a bad decision for a lot of people. I have never encountered
> any problem with a big flat /. On the machine with its own /tmp /var etc.
> i am continuously bothered with file system fulls.
Sorry, but no. This points to a system administrator that does not
understand what type of disk space is going to be required by the system
that he is running.
Creating a monolithic slash filesystem is insane for any number of reasons,
none of which I'll go into at this point.
AlanC {been at this *WAY* too long to even consider a "big flat /"}
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