Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 13:01:34 -0800 From: Beech Rintoul <beech@mangohealth.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Brendan Grossman <brendan@grossman.id.au> Subject: Re: /boot at beginning of drive Message-ID: <200604161301.46391.beech@mangohealth.org> In-Reply-To: <20060416205147.6544228454@porsche.brendan.id.au> References: <20060416205147.6544228454@porsche.brendan.id.au>
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--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--
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