Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 09:42:28 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> Cc: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Garance A Drosehn <gad@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Unifying partitions (was: cvs commit: src/sys/conf kern.post.mk) Message-ID: <20050915001228.GC38674@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <0D07312F-7DDB-40E4-A63A-3E00969F5A4C@xcllnt.net> <20050914100957.L33820@fledge.watson.org> References: <0D07312F-7DDB-40E4-A63A-3E00969F5A4C@xcllnt.net> <20050911002229.51F4916A471@hub.freebsd.org> <432382BC.5080105@root.org> <200509110310.36423@harrymail> <43255152.3000609@freebsd.org> <20050912165518.GA94181@dragon.NUXI.org> <20050913125820.GA10663@FreeBSD.org> <F74CCD5E-AD4C-4343-9626-5F6460C4D6C6@xcllnt.net> <p06230916bf4d11bb5363@[128.113.24.47]> <20050914100957.L33820@fledge.watson.org>
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--YjUCIDG0UL7zSTfa Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday, 14 September 2005 at 9:27:11 -0700, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > On Sep 14, 2005, at 8:53 AM, Brooks Davis wrote: > >> I've also hit cases where the log come in so fast that you can fill a >> 1GB /var fast enough that newsyslog never has a chance to compress the >> log. > > Just so that people realize: what is being described is not an > argument for having /var be a separate partition, but really for > having /var/log be a separate partition. Brooks' argument, yes. rwatson's argument was for mail. The recommendation I made was to put /var in the root file system *unless there are good reasons not to do so*. The issue here is that automatic partitioning can't take your usage patterns into account. Where you do need large a /var, it makes sense to have a separate partition. But most people create a separate /var, usually too big or too small, because that's the way it's done. FWIW, I don't use a separate /var on any of my systems, though there's certainly an argument to do so. But I haven't run out of space. Note also that in this case, an alternative to a separate partition is to set up quotas. Not that I do that, either. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --YjUCIDG0UL7zSTfa Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDKLxsIubykFB6QiMRAqjTAJ9obaw4TqAo2VViNlZaoFYzX8XYVgCfYHCu FSO8ENhjQWZaYKVPkc7cIBo= =cl0Y -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --YjUCIDG0UL7zSTfa--
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