Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 17:58:47 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: tom@sdf.com (Tom) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, craig@ProGroup.COM, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Partitioning suggestions? Message-ID: <199711191758.KAA11740@usr05.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.971118195519.25882A-100000@misery.sdf.com> from "Tom" at Nov 18, 97 07:56:48 pm
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> > This is really bogus reasoning. The / partition will never fill up > > because only root can fill it up, and there is a 10% reserve for root > > to use. You can fit a lot of password file entries into 3M of a 30M FS. > > syslog runs as root, and it is big source of filled filesystems. > > Certainly not bogus reasoning. This is why newsyslog was committed: it can rotate logs by itself and ensure that a given log file will never exceed a certain amount of space (size + count of previous versions). Use newsyslog instead. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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