Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 11:02:13 -0800 (PST) From: "f.johan.beisser" <jan@caustic.org> To: Marcelo <bsdq@stgo.cl> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002021058330.289-100000@pogo.caustic.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1000202134722.1214A-100000@stgo.cl>
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it's generally frowned upon because of partition needs.. for example: something could cause the /var/ partition to fill up, which wouldn't normally be a "bad thing" - at least, not to bad - but, if there's nothing to keep it from filling the entire disk (you might not notice for some reason), there's a potential problem of it crashing the machine, or preventing logins. and yes, it IS an 8 gig disk, then again, i've seen those get filled in a matter of hours by bad log messages, while the box is unattended. -- jan On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Marcelo 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? > > thanks for your input, > Marcelo > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > +-----/ f. johan beisser /------------------------------+ email: jan[at]caustic.org web: http://www.caustic.org/~jan "knowledge is power. power corrupts. study hard, be evil." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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