From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 30 14:19:50 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F66F16A4CE; Fri, 30 Apr 2004 14:19:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from TRANG.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5184F43D48; Fri, 30 Apr 2004 14:19:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by TRANG.nuxi.com (8.12.11/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i3ULJnlj086073; Fri, 30 Apr 2004 14:19:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i3ULJnwT086072; Fri, 30 Apr 2004 14:19:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 14:19:49 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Thomas Quinot Message-ID: <20040430211948.GC85783@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <200404301403.50634.past@noc.ntua.gr> <20040430123040.GB30157@melusine.cuivre.fr.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040430123040.GB30157@melusine.cuivre.fr.eu.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 01 May 2004 04:59:37 -0700 cc: Panagiotis Astithas cc: FreeBSD Current Subject: Re: Change default dumpdir to /usr/crash? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 21:19:50 -0000 On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 02:30:40PM +0200, Thomas Quinot wrote: > * Panagiotis Astithas, 2004-04-30 : > > > I was wondering (since being bitten by this occasionally) why don't > > we change the default dumpdir in /etc/default/rc.conf to /usr/crash > > instead of /var/crash? The default partitioning scheme in sysinstall > > (when you press 'A') creates a /var with only 256MB, whereas it > > retains a huge amount of space for /usr. Shouldn't we help Joe "the > > defaults" User have working crashdumps? > > The proper fix would probably be to change the default partitioning > scheme, not to move the crash dumps. I think one property we try to > guarantee is that /usr be mountable read-only through NFS for a cluster > of workstations, whereas /var is always mounted read-write, for its > purpose is to contain files whose contents *vary* over time. All correct. Panagiotis, please instead propose a proper size for /var. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)