From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jan 8 6:45:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from tsolab.org (w132.z064220255.trn-nj.dsl.cnc.net [64.220.255.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 816D137B404 for ; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 06:45:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from tsolab.org ([206.173.250.169]) by tsolab.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA29255; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 09:44:01 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from dan@tsolab.org) Message-ID: <3A59D273.CB58B4D0@tsolab.org> Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 09:45:07 -0500 From: Daniel Tso Reply-To: dan@tsolab.org X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ken Menzel Cc: Joe Gleason , Matt Heckaman , B , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /var drive space problem References: <002701c078f7$086b9f60$0b2d2d0a@fireduck.com> <014101c0797f$84682880$711663cf@icarz.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I Agree, with Joe, but I also want to add I think the root file > systems is also too small. The same type of formula could work. As > for me I'll continue to set my favorite values for modern drives: 250M > root, 2*mem swap, 250M /var, the rest /usr. > 20M is way too small for modern drives, but we can't hard code this > as many people stll are using old hardware to do jobs (such as nat > boxs and ipfw etc). Why would you want a 250M root ? I always keep root small, usually the default 32M or 40M. It limits the possible damage and makes it much easier to restore. /tmp does not belong in root, but has its own partition, which can be 200M if you have it. The root partition should be as static as possible, IMHO. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message