From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 20 13:34: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-31-203-60.mmcable.com [65.31.203.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4F55437B42B for ; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 13:34:03 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 79396 invoked by uid 100); 20 Nov 2001 21:34:16 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15354.52312.300726.769886@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 15:34:16 -0600 To: "Scott Gerhardt" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Disk Partitioning In-Reply-To: <41965224@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Scott Gerhardt types: > I'm setting up a multipurpose production server for HTTP, POP3 and DB that > would serve up to 100 virtual hosts and 300 POP accounts. > > I have no idea about disk space required for logging and mail. Any > insights? Read through the -questions archives. This comes up all the time. > Is it a good idea to create separate partitions for /var/mail and /var/log > to keep things separate incase of runaway log files? No. If either one runs out of space, you're hosed. Putting them into two smaller partitions just creates more things that can run out of space and hose you. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Q: How do you make the gods laugh? A: Tell them your plans. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message