Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 09:56:55 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Marcelo <bsdq@stgo.cl> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Why to use seperate partitions Message-ID: <20000202095655.B26831@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1000202134722.1214A-100000@stgo.cl>; from bsdq@stgo.cl on Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 01:47:42PM %2B0000 References: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1000202134722.1214A-100000@stgo.cl>
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* Marcelo <bsdq@stgo.cl> [000202 09:19] wrote: > > Hello, > I have an 8 gig drive. 500m are swap since I have 256 in RAM. > The rest is all mounted on / > Is that bad? > I was critized by a peer for not having split up the drive and mount > individual partitions into /usr /var etc.. > > But since the server will not be used by anyone (webserver and webmail) I > am not concerned about users taking up space since they aren't any. > > But in general what is the rule of thumb on this? are there any speed > advantages to having seperat partitions? The idea is to make / as 'read-only' as possible, to facilitate a fast fsck if you come across any problems, also to provide for seperation from log files and other data files that may need to grow. Spamming your automated htaccess/password files because you forgot to turn of verbose httpd logging really stinks. Take your friend's advice next time. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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