I asked for a consensus as to the advisability of not having separate partitions
for /, /usr, /opt etc. The general consensus is that it is A Good Thing with the
proviso that it does give users the opportunity to fill up their disk - that
doesn't worry me a lot - you break it, you fix it :-) (A bound copy of BOFH
sits on my bedside table)
Casper informed me that Adrian Cockcroft recommends doing just this in his
performance tuning book - particularly embarassing as that book is sitting on my
shelf :-) - with the caveat that a separate /var is recommended on servers and
Michael Shon told me that this is the configuration used in his section of Sun.
So, I'm going to go with this, except that I will use a separate /var on all
machines as I have had /var overflow problems before, of course on machines
where /var was NOT separate !
Thanks to Casper and Michael and Stephen Harris (who does the same thing)
and anyone else whose replies reach me after this summary goes out (about 1
hour after my query - I love this list)
Kindest regards,
Niall O Broin
UNIX Network Administrator, Stations and Communications Engineering Department
European Space Operations Centre nobroin@esoc.esa.de
Darmstadt, Germany Ph./Fax +49 6151 90 3619/2179
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