Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 12:58:02 -0700 From: "Philip J. Koenig" <pjklist@ekahuna.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: root partition Message-ID: <20020624195803617.AAA703@empty1.ekahuna.com@pc02.ekahuna.com> In-Reply-To: <bulk.55007.20020624123349@hub.freebsd.org>
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> Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 12:36:24 -0500 (CDT) > From: Jason P Holland <jholland@cs.selu.edu> > > yes, absolutely, that is a best practice. if /var fills up, you don't > want that to affect /. also, /tmp should be seperate, because its a DoS > since /tmp can be written by any user, they could conceivably fill up /. > the only case this would be ok, would be if you were installing on a > smaller hard drive, which gives you less room to juggle around. > > jason Yep. My usual practice is to create a separate /var partition, create /var/tmp, and symlink /tmp to /var/tmp. If you don't have a separate /var filesystem, I recommend: Create /usr/var Create /usr/var/tmp Symlink /var to /usr/var Symlink /tmp to /usr/var/tmp If the time comes you get a separate /var partition (ie during a drive upgrade) it becomes fairly easy to move the whole /usr/var collection to /var. Phil -- Philip J. Koenig pjklist@ekahuna.com Electric Kahuna Systems -- Computers & Communications for the New Millenium To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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