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Date:      Tue, 18 Nov 1997 19:56:48 -0800 (PST)
From:      Tom <tom@sdf.com>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
Cc:        craig@ProGroup.COM, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Partitioning suggestions?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95q.971118195519.25882A-100000@misery.sdf.com>
In-Reply-To: <199711181937.MAA08908@usr07.primenet.com>

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On Tue, 18 Nov 1997, Terry Lambert wrote:

> 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.

Tom




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