Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 14:07:44 -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: <200604161408.04461.beech@mangohealth.org> In-Reply-To: <20060416213041.EE14128454@porsche.brendan.id.au> References: <20060416213041.EE14128454@porsche.brendan.id.au>
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--nextPart1839584.kPyEOmq0VJ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sunday 16 April 2006 13:30, Brendan Grossman wrote: > > Having a separate /tmp slice is not a bad idea, combining /, > > /usr, and /var is unless you're doing a very minimal install. > > I can separate /usr, but my goal is to combine /home and /var, or at least > where mail and databases are stored, for reasons already mentioned. > > I suppose I could do this... > > / 5gb > swap 4gb > /tmp 1gb > /usr 70gb > > Then /home -> /usr/home, /var -> /usr/var > > Or create a 60gb partition and call it /users > > Then /var/mail -> /users/mail, /var/dbdir -> /users/dbdir > > The drive is 80gb (effectively 74ish), and 60gb of it must be for users > (using either /var or /home) > > I suppose it is a bit better. If /home is symlinked to /usr/home, then use a MTA that will deliver mail=20 to /home/user/mail. Databases are stored in /var/db for security reasons, b= ut=20 there's no reason you can't configure whatever db you're using to store=20 database files in /usr. The reason for having a separate /var partition is = in=20 the event of a filesystem crash or you get hacked it's much easier to resto= re=20 important files. The same holds true for /etc (which is part of /). Doing a= =20 restore of /usr just to get the system going again could take quite a while= =20 and trying to restore to non-standard locations is guaranteed to give you=20 some grief. While there is no "standard" filesystem layout on *nix systems,= =20 the recommended layout is tried and true and will be much easier to=20 troubleshoot without having to translate help documents to your custom setu= p. 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------------- --nextPart1839584.kPyEOmq0VJ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBEQsBE2TFLCHYGSF0RAvitAJ4t+7hxs8dnJXN355dW23S5hG9ktwCdESNc wPyZyDoxMJPbV3/cOxn308Y= =7nYA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1839584.kPyEOmq0VJ--
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