Re: Partitioning hard drives
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On Thursday, 18.11.2004 at 23:07 -0600, Jeremy Turner wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 11:41:02AM -0500, Robert Storey wrote:
> > There are security issues - some experts think it's a really good
> > idea to keep /tmp and /var away from the root partition.
>
> Especially if for some reason a process starts spewing out junk to a
> logfile, filling up your entire / partition.
>
> I also learned that if you run a mail server, having /var/mail as an
> extra partition is nice, too. If you have the same logfile spew, you
> will still have a place to spool incoming mail.
Ditto for news, of course - I have /var/spool/news on a separate
partition. A high turnover of a large number of small files ... keep it
separate.
In fact, the new Sarge installer had an option for a 'news' spool
partition type. It chooses appropriate block sizes etc. for the
filesystem.
Dave.
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