Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 07:44:53 -0400 From: "D G Teed" <donald.teed@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: suggested size of /var/mail Message-ID: <dd4da0390801280344r60ef480k7581c1adb8570e41@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <479DA0EF.8090609@math.arizona.edu> References: <479D6E97.6060100@gmx.net> <20080128090005.V1235@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <479DA0EF.8090609@math.arizona.edu>
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No one qualified the context of the question. Not the OP, nor the answers. Amateurs are you all? Details, details, details!!!!! Is this for home, or for a hobby site, or the real world? What is the volume of use? What sort of server is it - MX, apache, database server, America's Army run in Linux compatibility mode, etc.? No one can answer partitioning without knowing what you are doing, and where. If it is a personal server, with very few or only one user on it, then you might not even need a separate partition for /var. If it is a production server of some sort, strongly related to that gray cloud Internet thing, then having a different partition for /var which can fill up with space or inodes and you can still login to the system is the best way to go. I've seen /var fill up a few times on various servers and this is a good measure for a vat that can take the excess and then stop. Anyone who says they never seen a problem with this has not run something like a web server for more than 3 years in the real world (by this, I mean a domain name that people around the world know of). As for how big, no one can guess. You have to think about it. If you've never done this install before, perhaps you'll need to do it twice to get the partitioning right. It certainly isn't like Solaris, where the copies of every patch you've ever applied are archived for eternity, consuming up to 6GB or more. --Donald
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