Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 21:26:19 -0800 From: "Patrick Fish" <patrick@pwhsnet.com> To: "Brian T.Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: filesystems Message-ID: <002001c1c406$48250c80$0300a8c0@zeus> References: <001a01c1c402$4be71a60$0300a8c0@zeus> <20020305051459.83215BA03@i8k.babbleon.org>
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>Another drawback is that if a process goes insane and >consume infinite /tmp >space it gets to eat the entire HD before it stops. For >these reasons I >partition /var, /tmp, and /home to their own space, as well >as a /ext >parition for "big junk" that I want to back up and /more for >"big junk" that >I don't. I dont need to worry about disk space, 99.9% of my users have quotas on / - Patrick Fish - patrick at pwhsnet dot com PWHS Networks - http://www.pwhsnet.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian T.Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org> To: "Patrick Fish" <patrick@pwhsnet.com>; <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 9:14 PM Subject: Re: filesystems > On Monday 04 March 2002 11:57 pm, Patrick Fish wrote: > > My disk layout looks like this: > > > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > > /dev/ad0s1a 18G 2.7G 14G 16% / > > procfs 4.0K 4.0K 0B 100% /proc > > > > > > ........ > > Would it be a good idea to break the major dirs into seperate partitions? > > I prefer it that way, but it's simpler in many ways to just have one--you > never wind up shuffling bits of your system around when the ratio between > partition sizes turns out to be wrong. > > The big drawback is that if your f/s ever gets trashed, *everything* is gone, > including the partition that you might have wanted to stick around to > facilitate recovery. > > Another drawback is that if a process goes insane and consume infinite /tmp > space it gets to eat the entire HD before it stops. For these reasons I > partition /var, /tmp, and /home to their own space, as well as a /ext > parition for "big junk" that I want to back up and /more for "big junk" that > I don't. > > OTOH, I don't separate out /usr, and almost eveerybody else does. It seems > just as "system"ish as / to me. YMMV. > > > If so, could i do this with fdisk WITHOUT reformatting? - > > No. Which is why I'd just leave well enough alone & keep good backups until > I had some other reason to re-install, unless your system is brand-new and > you haven't customized much of anything. > > > > Patrick Fish - patrick at pwhsnet dot com > > PWHS Networks - http://www.pwhsnet.com > > > > > > --- > > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > > Version: 6.0.325 / Virus Database: 182 - Release Date: 2/19/2002 > > -- > Brian T. Schellenberger . . . . . . . bts@wnt.sas.com (work) > Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) > ME --> http://www.babbleon.org > http://www.eff.org <-- GOOD GUYS --> http://www.programming-freedom.org > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.325 / Virus Database: 182 - Release Date: 2/19/2002 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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