Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 12:24:21 -0800 From: Beech Rintoul <beech@mangohealth.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Brendan Grossman <brendan@grossman.id.au> Subject: Re: /boot at beginning of drive Message-ID: <200604161224.32990.beech@mangohealth.org> In-Reply-To: <20060416195903.BB69B28454@porsche.brendan.id.au> References: <20060416195903.BB69B28454@porsche.brendan.id.au>
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--nextPart9544834.vJdRjqUp1T Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sunday 16 April 2006 11:59, Brendan Grossman wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Glenn Dawson [mailto:glenn@antimatter.net] > > Sent: Monday, 17 April 2006 5:16 AM > > To: Brendan Grossman; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > Subject: Re: /boot at beginning of drive > > > > /boot has to be in the / file system. > > > > There's a rather lengthy thread about this a few months back > > if you search the archives. > > Think I found it... > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-questions/2005-July/092614= =2Eh >t ml > > That's not good then. I'm setting up a system with many users, who will > need access to /var and their /home. They will have quotas, so data in /v= ar > + data in /home must be less than their quota. Obviously it's not a good > idea to create separate /var and /home partitions as for example, if say > /var filled up, the user won't be able to write to it, even though they a= re > "allowed" to since their quota hasn't been reached. > > Hmmm... Does /boot have to be in the first 1024 cylinders still? I could > adjust my scheme as such: > > swap 1gb > /tmp 500mb (mounted noexec,nosuid) > / remainder It's not a good idea to put everything on the / filesystem. At a minimum I would have: / swap /var /usr Your users will not fill up /var unless you allow them unlimited mail,=20 databases or access to root. User's tempfiles will go to /usr/tmp. On a=20 system with many users, you should consider a /home slice with quotas on th= at=20 and your mailserver set to deliver mail to the users file. Remember not=20 everyone is going to max out their filesystem so quotas can be set to=20 reasonable values. There are many good reasons to separate those filesystem= s,=20 disk performance and crashdumps being just two. Having many users is NOT a= =20 good reason to combine filesystems. You need to rethink your diskspace or a= dd=20 another drive for /home or /usr. The handbook has a good section on this.=20 Beech =2D-=20 =2D------------------------------------------------------------------------= =2D------------- Beech Rintoul - Sys. Administrator - beech@mangohealth.org /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Mangohealth \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | 201 East 9Th Avenue Ste.310 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99501 / \ - XanGo - http://www.mangohealth.org =2D------------------------------------------------------------------------= =2D------------- --nextPart9544834.vJdRjqUp1T Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBEQqgA2TFLCHYGSF0RAoAgAJwJNnhrYj5UIe9PeBmDjz/WjDhQhgCeIW+T kvoxDCuX2nm8/YhnIxZYT+0= =/Bb6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart9544834.vJdRjqUp1T--
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