From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 13 4:21:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from malkav.snowmoon.com (machine-126-237.cdcsd.k12.ny.us [208.20.126.237]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8839614A21 for ; Wed, 13 Oct 1999 04:21:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jaime@malkav.snowmoon.com) Received: (qmail 56667 invoked by uid 1001); 13 Oct 1999 11:21:43 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 13 Oct 1999 11:21:43 -0000 Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 07:21:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Jaime Kikpole To: Christopher Michaels Cc: whitehat@home.com, questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: total lag In-Reply-To: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB4401105CDA@site2s1> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Christopher Michaels wrote: > Why does he need a dedicated /var partition? This has been debated many > times, and it'd be much simpler for him to just make a /usr/var and symlink > /var to that. Come to think of it, there's no reason that he can't do that. Unix is funny like that... it tends to have 20 ways to solve any problem. I just didn't think of this. Personally, I like having it as a seperate partition because it prevents a run-away mysql daemon or syslogd from filling the partition which contains nearly everything. (I also tend to have /tmp and /home partitions for this reason.) Jaime To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message