How should I divvy up my HDDs? Suggestions Please.

freebsd.org at donnacha.com freebsd.org at donnacha.com
Thu May 5 08:35:01 PDT 2005


Thanks RW.

 >> How big should /tmp be?
 >
 > The precise size depends on your needs, people use values from a few 
hundred
 > MB to a few GB, however generally applictions that need a lot of 
temporary
 > storage will let you specify where it goes.

So, do you think 1GB for /tmp will be enough?

 > / is probably the worst partition  to put /tmp in. In FreeBSD the root
 > partition is small and contains the critical files needed to get the 
system
 > up into single user mode, so you can perform repairs. You want to 
reduce to
 > risk of damaging it, and it's used without soft-updates or background
 > checking, so it's not very efficient for writing anyway.

Well, I'm going to give /tmp it's own partition on the other HDD, well 
away from /.

 > Possibly, he sees it as the kind of thing that should go in /var due to
 > frequent changes. /var holds things that generate heavy file 
fragmentation,
 > such as spool files, logs etc.

So, is he trying to protect the programs that individual users install 
in their /home directories?

Donnacha


RW wrote:
> On Thursday 05 May 2005 14:25, freebsd.org at donnacha.com wrote:
> 
>>Jerry, thanks for your advice!
>>
>> > If all your accounts and web pages
>> > are really in /home and you have no databases, I would be inclined
>> > to put both /usr and /var in the 80GB drive and leave the other one
>> > for home directories and web pages.
>>
>>In The Complete FreeBSD, Greg Lehey suggests that it's a good idea to
>>place web pages in /var, I don't quite grasp why.  Do you think it would
>>be a better idea to stick with the standard and leave web pages in /home?
> 
> 
> Possibly, he sees it as the kind of thing that should go in /var due to 
> frequent changes. /var holds things that generate heavy file fragmentation, 
> such as spool files, logs etc. 
>  
> 
> 
>>What about /tmp?  Looking through this list's archives, I read that it's
>>considered more secure to place /tmp on a seperate partition from /,
>>would it be even more secure to place it on a seperate HDD?  How big
>>should /tmp be?
> 
> 
> The precise size depends on your needs, people use values from a few hundred 
> MB to a few GB, however generally applictions that need a lot of temporary 
> storage will let you specify where it goes.
> 
> / is probably the worst partition  to put /tmp in. In FreeBSD the root 
> partition is small and contains the critical files needed to get the system 
> up into single user mode, so you can perform repairs. You want to reduce to 
> risk of damaging it, and it's used without soft-updates or background 
> checking, so it's not very efficient for writing anyway.
> 
> /usr doesn't need to be all that big, a lot of people symlink out /usr/ports 
> and /usr/src and have just 4GB - even on a desktop.
> 
> 
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