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From: Jason P Holland <jholland@cs.selu.edu>
To: "Henning, Brian" <brian.henning@navitaire.com>
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Subject: RE: root partition
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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

> Jason,
> that is the case... i have /usr and /home separate from /. 
> Do you think I should have a separate partition for /var?
> Thanks,
> brian
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason P Holland [mailto:jholland@cs.selu.edu]
> Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 12:28 PM
> To: Henning, Brian
> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: RE: root partition
> 
> 
> 
> what partitions do you have seperate from /?  /usr and /home?
> 
> most likely /var and /root are going to be growing if that is the case, 
> and /root is only going to grow if you add files yourself, /var will grow 
> as the logs grow.  keep an eye on /var
> 
> jason
> 
> > here is the result of my 
> > du -sh *
> > 6.0K    COPYRIGHT
> > 3.9M    bin
> > 390K    boot
> > 2.0K    cdrom
> >   0B    compat
> >  70K    dev
> > 2.0K    dist
> > 998K    etc
> > 636M    home
> > 4.0M    kernel
> > 3.5M    kernel.GENERIC
> > 2.0K    mnt
> > 5.1M    modules
> > 2.0K    mycd
> >  17K    proc
> >  99M    root
> >  11M    sbin
> > 2.1M    stand
> >   0B    sys
> > 8.0K    tmp
> > 
> > 1.8G    usr
> >  11M    var
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jason P Holland [mailto:jholland@cs.selu.edu]
> > Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 12:03 PM
> > To: Henning, Brian
> > Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> > Subject: Re: root partition
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > hmm, that is a bit low.  you could investigate what is filling up?  try a 
> > 
> > cd /
> > du -sh *
> > 
> > periodically, that should help you narrow down what is filling up.  it 
> > might be the logs in /var though
> > 
> > jason
> > 
> > > Hello-
> > > I keep having a problem with filling up my root partition. I combine /
> and
> > > /var with 150M of space. Is that enough space? I don't copy files to
> this
> > > partition so I don't really know how it would fill up? Should I just
> > create
> > > a bigger partition or is there something I am missing here?
> > > thanks,
> > > brian
> > > 
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