From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 19 09:59:09 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA05210 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 19 Nov 1997 09:59:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.5.85]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA05197 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 1997 09:59:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr05.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA15592; Wed, 19 Nov 1997 10:59:01 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr05.primenet.com(206.165.6.205) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpd015580; Wed Nov 19 10:58:52 1997 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr05.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA11740; Wed, 19 Nov 1997 10:58:47 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199711191758.KAA11740@usr05.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Partitioning suggestions? To: tom@sdf.com (Tom) Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 17:58:47 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, craig@ProGroup.COM, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Tom" at Nov 18, 97 07:56:48 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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.