Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 12:36:24 -0500 (CDT) From: Jason P Holland <jholland@cs.selu.edu> To: "Henning, Brian" <brian.henning@navitaire.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: root partition Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0206241230500.29619-100000@cs.selu.edu> In-Reply-To: <E1846117A30764468D2192D5A48541CC03894915@exchange.Navitaire.com>
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yes, absolutely, that is a best practice. if /var fills up, you don't want that to affect /. also, /tmp should be seperate, because its a DoS since /tmp can be written by any user, they could conceivably fill up /. the only case this would be ok, would be if you were installing on a smaller hard drive, which gives you less room to juggle around. jason > Jason, > that is the case... i have /usr and /home separate from /. > Do you think I should have a separate partition for /var? > Thanks, > brian > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jason P Holland [mailto:jholland@cs.selu.edu] > Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 12:28 PM > To: Henning, Brian > Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: RE: root partition > > > > what partitions do you have seperate from /? /usr and /home? > > most likely /var and /root are going to be growing if that is the case, > and /root is only going to grow if you add files yourself, /var will grow > as the logs grow. keep an eye on /var > > jason > > > here is the result of my > > du -sh * > > 6.0K COPYRIGHT > > 3.9M bin > > 390K boot > > 2.0K cdrom > > 0B compat > > 70K dev > > 2.0K dist > > 998K etc > > 636M home > > 4.0M kernel > > 3.5M kernel.GENERIC > > 2.0K mnt > > 5.1M modules > > 2.0K mycd > > 17K proc > > 99M root > > 11M sbin > > 2.1M stand > > 0B sys > > 8.0K tmp > > > > 1.8G usr > > 11M var > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Jason P Holland [mailto:jholland@cs.selu.edu] > > Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 12:03 PM > > To: Henning, Brian > > Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > Subject: Re: root partition > > > > > > > > hmm, that is a bit low. you could investigate what is filling up? try a > > > > cd / > > du -sh * > > > > periodically, that should help you narrow down what is filling up. it > > might be the logs in /var though > > > > jason > > > > > Hello- > > > I keep having a problem with filling up my root partition. I combine / > and > > > /var with 150M of space. Is that enough space? I don't copy files to > this > > > partition so I don't really know how it would fill up? Should I just > > create > > > a bigger partition or is there something I am missing here? > > > thanks, > > > brian > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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