Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 19:07:49 -0500 From: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: more than 7 partitions on a SCSI-drive Message-ID: <17844.85.335537.317957@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <45B3E0D0.70005@u.washington.edu> References: <ep0jcf$1meb$10@nermal.rz1.convenimus.net> <a969fbd10701211254ha01cb66q4ca4fe474c0dfdb@mail.gmail.com> <45B3E0D0.70005@u.washington.edu>
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Garrett Cooper writes: > One good reason I can think of is to partition (not the tech > definition but the traditional definition, "to divide") > filesystems such that if one person fills up "/", it won't cause > a program that needs to write to "/var" or "/tmp" problems, which > in the case of "/var" can bring down entire systems and > infrastructures (happened before where I was working as IT when a > CUPS server ran out of space on /var). > Other than that.. not really sure. Maybe some of the older > guard on the list know why. N) Dump - the preferred beckup method - works at the partition level. Sure, you can flag files and directories "nodump" using chflags ... but do you really want to manage that given modern disk sizes? Robert Huff
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