Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 16:35:48 +0100 From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> To: chip <chip@wiegand.org> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Bad disk partitioning policies (was: "Re: FreeBSD Intaller (was "Re: ... RedHat ...")") Message-ID: <p0510122eb875d9456cf4@[10.0.1.3]> In-Reply-To: <20020123223104.SM01952@there> References: <20020123114658.A514@lpt.ens.fr> <20020123124025.A60889@HAL9000.wox.org> <3C4F5BEE.294FDCF5@mindspring.com> <20020123223104.SM01952@there>
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At 10:31 PM -0800 2002/01/23, chip wrote: > the first > thing I did was give / 100 megs, then give /swap double whatever the ram is, > and the rest goes to /usr. The issue of what is intelligent partitioning has been discussed previously on this list. However, I believe that dumping everything in /usr is a really bad idea. Among other things, you have no way of keeping a runaway program from eating up all available disk space and causing a serious DoS on the system. With a separate /var partition, a runaway program is likely to only be able to fill that up, leaving the rest of the system okay. You'd need to symlink /usr/tmp to /var/tmp, however. > When all's said and done, I symlink /tmp to > /usr/tmp and /var to /usr/var. This has also been discussed previously. However, I believe that there is much more agreement that symlinking /tmp to anywhere not on the root filesystem is a really, really bad idea -- what happens during boot if the system need to write something to /tmp, but /tmp is a symlink to a filesystem that hasn't been mounted yet? -- Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be> H4sICIFgXzsCA2RtYS1zaWcAPVHLbsMwDDvXX0H0kkvbfxiwVw8FCmzAzqqj1F4dy7CdBfn7 Kc6wmyGRFEnvvxiWQoCvqI7RSWTcfGXQNqCUAnfIU+AT8OZ/GCNjRVlH0bKpguJkxiITZqes MxwpSucyDJzXxQEUe/ihgXqJXUXwD9ajB6NHonLmNrUSK9nacHQnH097szO74xFXqtlbT3il wMsBz5cnfCR5cEmci0Rj9u/jqBbPeES1I4PeFBXPUIT1XDSOuutFXylzrQvGyboWstCoQZyP dxX4dLx0eauFe1x9puhoi0Ao1omEJo+BZ6XLVNaVpWiKekxN0VK2VMpmAy+Bk7ZV4SO+p1L/ uErNRS/qH2iFU+iNOtbcmVt9N16lfF7tLv9FXNj8AiyNcOi1AQAA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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