/boot at beginning of drive

[Beech Rintoul]

On Sunday 16 April 2006 12:38, Brendan Grossman wrote:
> > It's not a good idea to put everything on the / filesystem.
> > At a minimum I would have:
> > /
> > swap
> > /var
> > /usr
> >
> > Your users will not fill up /var unless you allow them
> > unlimited mail, databases or access to root.
>
> They will have unlimited access up until their quota has been reached.
> Where they use that quota is anyone's guess.
>
> > User's tempfiles will go to /usr/tmp.
>
> How does that work? I just checked /tmp, and it's not a symlink.

Copy the contents of /tmp to /usr/tmp then remove /tmp and symlink /usr/tmp 
to /tmp.

>
> > On a system with many users, you should
> > consider a /home slice with quotas on that and your
> > mailserver set to deliver mail to the users file. Remember
> > not everyone is going to max out their filesystem so quotas
> > can be set to reasonable values. There are many good reasons
> > to separate those filesystems, disk performance and
> > crashdumps being just two. Having many users is NOT a good
> > reason to combine filesystems. You need to rethink your
> > diskspace or add another drive for /home or /usr. The
> > handbook has a good section on this.
>
> I agree that it's not a great idea, but considering the software I'm using,
> user files are stored in /var and /home. I don't know what percentage of
> quotas users will use for emails, databases, or home dirs, and I don't want
> to take a guess. If say they were to use a lot of their quota for
> databases, then down the track I don't want to have the problem with /var
> full but users still under their quota.
>
> By the way just did an install, and it boots fine with the swap, /tmp, /
> structure.
>
> Cheers
> Brendan
>
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