> >The fourth reason to have separate partitions is to make it easier > >to isolate things. You may want to make a certain amount of space > >available for users to write in, but want to keep them out of other > >space. There are various ways to do it. Having things grouped > >conveniently in some defined area makes it a little easier. > > > > What Jerry said ;-). Thanks for expressing what I couldn't OTTOMH. > > >>Incidentally, 150MB doesn't seem very large for a root partition IMHO. > >>I've not read the handbook recently, but I generally use a gig for /. > > > >If you divide out /var and /usr and /tmp and /home, then 150 MB is > >plenty for root. I am currently using about 120 MB on this machine > >which is due a good cleanup. > > I only partition /, /var/, and /usr/, so /tmp stays in the root slice; I > make mention of this fact (150M being small) because of the > previously-mentioned case in which installworld puked because / was full > (this *was* with a separate /tmp) and there was nothing really there > except default stuff (had been a DesktopBSD system, maybe someone with > more experience there could comment). The box was going from 5.3 under > an (older) DesktopBSD test install to FBSD 6.2; I worked 'round the > issue by moving /stand, but ended up re-installing 6.2 from CD to give a > slightly more junior guy more experience with sysinstall (AAMOF I've > made him do it on two boxen today, heh heh heh)....
Hmmm. /tmp is definitely one thing I would take out of / and put in its own partition - or at least in some other big scratch space. It can easily get filled with stuff which then goes away. But if it overfills /, it can bring the system to its knees. If it overfills its own system, it can make things slow to a standstill, but usually you can still get in with root and nuke enough to continue and at least shut things down gracefully. ////jerry > > Kevin Kinsey > -- > Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. > -- John Lennon, Beautiful Boy _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
