From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 22 00:08:30 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7572B16A401 for ; Mon, 22 Jan 2007 00:08:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from roberthuff@rcn.com) Received: from smtp02.lnh.mail.rcn.net (smtp02.lnh.mail.rcn.net [207.172.157.102]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3375813C441 for ; Mon, 22 Jan 2007 00:08:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from roberthuff@rcn.com) Received: from mr02.lnh.mail.rcn.net ([207.172.157.22]) by smtp02.lnh.mail.rcn.net with ESMTP; 21 Jan 2007 19:08:29 -0500 Received: from smtp01.lnh.mail.rcn.net (smtp01.lnh.mail.rcn.net [207.172.4.11]) by mr02.lnh.mail.rcn.net (MOS 3.7.5a-GA) with ESMTP id MUQ36341; Sun, 21 Jan 2007 19:08:26 -0500 (EST) Received: from 209-6-203-219.c3-0.smr-ubr1.sbo-smr.ma.cable.rcn.com (HELO jerusalem.litteratus.org.litteratus.org) ([209.6.203.219]) by smtp01.lnh.mail.rcn.net with ESMTP; 21 Jan 2007 19:08:26 -0500 From: Robert Huff MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17844.85.335537.317957@jerusalem.litteratus.org> Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 19:07:49 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <45B3E0D0.70005@u.washington.edu> References: <45B3E0D0.70005@u.washington.edu> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.5 (beta27) "fiddleheads" XEmacs Lucid X-Junkmail: UCE(50) X-Junkmail-Status: score=50/50, host=mr02.lnh.mail.rcn.net X-Junkmail-SD-Raw: score=bulk(0), refid=str=0001.0A090203.45B3FE71.007E,ss=3,fgs=0, ip=207.172.4.11, so=2006-05-09 23:27:51, dmn=5.2.125/2006-10-10 Subject: Re: more than 7 partitions on a SCSI-drive X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 00:08:30 -0000 Garrett Cooper writes: > One good reason I can think of is to partition (not the tech > definition but the traditional definition, "to divide") > filesystems such that if one person fills up "/", it won't cause > a program that needs to write to "/var" or "/tmp" problems, which > in the case of "/var" can bring down entire systems and > infrastructures (happened before where I was working as IT when a > CUPS server ran out of space on /var). > Other than that.. not really sure. Maybe some of the older > guard on the list know why. N) Dump - the preferred beckup method - works at the partition level. Sure, you can flag files and directories "nodump" using chflags ... but do you really want to manage that given modern disk sizes? Robert Huff