On Feb 8, 12:37pm, leam wrote:
>Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>> Richard Rauch <rkr@olib.org> writes:
>>>Some suggestions have been made to solve this.  I'd add:
>>> * Put everything on one big partition.

>> I always do this now. I just put everything on a machine into one big
>> "a" partition. With 20G disks or more, I've never had any sort of
>> issue from doing this, and it has eliminated most of my "how big do
>> you make partition X" issues.

>Ugh. This is tricky unless you have *total* control over everything that 
>goes into the box. If you have developers or 3rd party apps that don't 
>consider system survivability important it is better to isolate them 
>into /opt where they can mess up their own space and not hose the server.

What I've done for years at work, is put all the system stuff on one disk,
and the users on another disk mounted at /users.  That way, I can mirror
it, extend the filesystem as necessary, and not have to worry that if
someone wants to dump some 6GB into their account (don't laugh, it has
happened!) they won't kill the system.

~Steve


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