Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 16:57:11 +1030 From: "Norman Hoy" <normh@aone.com.au> To: "John Kelly" <jak@cetlink.net>, <jack@germanium.xtalwind.net> Cc: <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Sendmail - low on space Message-ID: <199801280627.RAA23890@mail.mel.aone.net.au>
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Yes but the problem that I have with putting any highly variable file system on a partition is the inability of UFS to expand. Once the system out grows your "allowance" you must then rebuild your hdd. but if you have /var as a separate hdd (even an old 520M/b) when it is getting full you just mount and build another /var under say /mnt then shutdown remove old hdd put new hdd in its place (say 1G/b) and away you go again. All of this depends on you putting /var on its own hdd in the first place otherwise you have to edit the /etc/fstab file to put /temp on say sd3s1 instead of sd0s3. making life very easy to grow your variable file systems. and that was where this thread started once a FS is full how can you grow it painlessly and quickly. answer when you first install keep the /var on its own hdd my opinion only. regards Norman ---------- > From: John Kelly <jak@cetlink.net> > To: jack@germanium.xtalwind.net > Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: Sendmail - low on space > Date: Wednesday, 28 January 1998 15:52 > > On Tue, 27 Jan 1998 22:33:02 -0500 (EST), jack > <jack@germanium.xtalwind.net> wrote: > > >On Wed, 28 Jan 1998, John Kelly wrote: > > > >> On Tue, 27 Jan 1998 16:24:55 -0500 (EST), Andrew Webster > >> <andrew@guardian.fortress.org> wrote: > >> > >> >I create my systems without a physical /var parition and symlink /var and > >> >/tmp into /usr/var and /usr/tmp respectively, this eliminates all > >> >problems, and you don't end up "wasting" lots of disk space for temporary > >> >files. > > > >> I see little benefit in a partition dedicated to /var. > > > >I do. I like the fact that the / partition, with the critical system > >files, is not written to each time a log entry is made > > Please read the message again. Root (/) will still have its own > parition. The separate /var partition is the one we're suggesting to > eliminate by consolidating it inside /usr. > > ------- > The day of the proprietary OS is over. Long live free software. >
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