Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 12:37:43 -0600 From: "Alejandro Ramirez" <ales@megared.net.mx> To: "Alfred Perlstein" <bright@wintelcom.net>, "Marcelo" <bsdq@stgo.cl> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Why to use seperate partitions Message-ID: <008701bf6dac$97b83ea0$020a0a0a@megared.net.mx> References: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1000202134722.1214A-100000@stgo.cl> <20000202095655.B26831@fw.wintelcom.net>
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Hi,
There its no speed advantage in separating partitions, the best
advantage its to have things cleanly ordered, and make backups of what you
really need, you certanly dont want to backup /tmp right, or backing up /,
/var or /usr all the time, just maybe /home (users home), or the Database
partition, also when you have a disk failure, or you lost some partition,
recovering its easier and faster.
Greetings
Ales
> * Marcelo <bsdq@stgo.cl> [000202 09:19] wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> > I have an 8 gig drive. 500m are swap since I have 256 in RAM.
> > The rest is all mounted on /
> > Is that bad?
> > I was critized by a peer for not having split up the drive and mount
> > individual partitions into /usr /var etc..
> >
> > But since the server will not be used by anyone (webserver and webmail)
I
> > am not concerned about users taking up space since they aren't any.
> >
> > But in general what is the rule of thumb on this? are there any speed
> > advantages to having seperat partitions?
>
> The idea is to make / as 'read-only' as possible, to facilitate
> a fast fsck if you come across any problems, also to provide
> for seperation from log files and other data files that may need
> to grow.
>
> Spamming your automated htaccess/password files because you forgot
> to turn of verbose httpd logging really stinks.
>
> Take your friend's advice next time.
>
> -Alfred
>
>
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