From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 16 21:01:51 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0D2D16A400 for ; Sun, 16 Apr 2006 21:01:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from beech@mangohealth.org) Received: from pinnacle.akherb.com (94-37-237-24.gci.net [24.237.37.94]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 560B743D46 for ; Sun, 16 Apr 2006 21:01:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from beech@mangohealth.org) Received: by pinnacle.akherb.com (Postfix, from userid 1007) id D67A55D01; Sun, 16 Apr 2006 13:01:50 -0800 (AKDT) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.1 (2006-03-10) on pinnacle.akherb.com X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=4.0 tests=AWL autolearn=ham version=3.1.1 Received: from [192.168.2.160] (209-124-141-064.ip.arctic.net [209.124.141.64]) by pinnacle.akherb.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3544A5C9B; Sun, 16 Apr 2006 13:01:48 -0800 (AKDT) From: Beech Rintoul Organization: Mangohealth To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 13:01:34 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <20060416205147.6544228454@porsche.brendan.id.au> In-Reply-To: <20060416205147.6544228454@porsche.brendan.id.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart23373205.csXII6xODn"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200604161301.46391.beech@mangohealth.org> Cc: Brendan Grossman Subject: Re: /boot at beginning of drive X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 21:01:51 -0000 --nextPart23373205.csXII6xODn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sunday 16 April 2006 12:51, Brendan Grossman wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Beech Rintoul [mailto:beech@mangohealth.org] > > Sent: Monday, 17 April 2006 6:19 AM > > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > Cc: Brendan Grossman > > Subject: Re: /boot at beginning of drive > > > > On Sunday 16 April 2006 12:38, Brendan Grossman wrote: > > > > It's not a good idea to put everything on the / filesystem. > > > > At a minimum I would have: > > > > / > > > > swap > > > > /var > > > > /usr > > > > > > > > Your users will not fill up /var unless you allow them unlimited > > > > mail, databases or access to root. > > > > > > They will have unlimited access up until their quota has > > > > been reached. > > > > > Where they use that quota is anyone's guess. > > > > > > > User's tempfiles will go to /usr/tmp. > > > > > > How does that work? I just checked /tmp, and it's not a symlink. > > > > Copy the contents of /tmp to /usr/tmp then remove /tmp and > > symlink /usr/tmp to /tmp. > > Yes, may I ask what the point is though? > > Here is my reason for separating /tmp and mounting it noexec,nosuid: > > http://www.sagonet.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3D2852 > Having a separate /tmp slice is not a bad idea, combining /, /usr, and /var= is=20 unless you're doing a very minimal install. Beech =2D-=20 =2D------------------------------------------------------------------------= =2D------------- Beech Rintoul - Sys. Administrator - beech@mangohealth.org /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Mangohealth \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | 201 East 9Th Avenue Ste.310 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99501 / \ - XanGo - http://www.mangohealth.org =2D------------------------------------------------------------------------= =2D------------- --nextPart23373205.csXII6xODn Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBEQrC62TFLCHYGSF0RAi4JAJkBG8yI7KT8uq7q3mg+PfZoHxDTowCffZeg VGC3qbkzYT5ymd5s9j/dFmc= =xxdX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart23373205.csXII6xODn--