Re: /boot at beginning of drive

2006-04-18 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-04-17 17:18, David J Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://users.rcn.com/rneswold/fbsd-init.html#AEN258 I stand corrected. I can still envision problems if tmp files use enough space to prevent a memory swap. Running out of swap space is not healthy. That's why swap-backed /tmp

RE: /boot at beginning of drive

2006-04-17 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-04-17 06:21, Brendan Grossman wrote: Beech Rintoul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: /boot at beginning of drive

2006-04-17 Thread Karsten Rothemund
On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 01:43:49PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: You should also take a look at the following rc.conf options then: tmpmfs=AUTO # Set to YES to always create an mfs /tmp, NO to never tmpsize=20m # Size of mfs /tmp if created

RE: /boot at beginning of drive

2006-04-17 Thread Brendan Grossman
Databases are stored in /var/db for security reasons Just curious... What are the security reasons? After some thought, here's what I'm planning on doing... Disk is 73gb scsi... / 500mb swap4gb /var4gb /usr4gb /home remainder (about 60gb) then /var/db/mysql - /home/mysql

Re: /boot at beginning of drive

2006-04-17 Thread David J Brooks
On Monday 17 April 2006 16:29, Brendan Grossman wrote: Databases are stored in /var/db for security reasons Just curious... What are the security reasons? After some thought, here's what I'm planning on doing... Disk is 73gb scsi... / 500mb swap 4gb /var 4gb /usr 4gb /home

RE: /boot at beginning of drive

2006-04-17 Thread Brendan Grossman
Databases are stored in /var/db for security reasons Just curious... What are the security reasons? After some thought, here's what I'm planning on doing... Disk is 73gb scsi... / 500mb swap4gb /var4gb /usr4gb /home remainder (about 60gb)

Re: /boot at beginning of drive

2006-04-17 Thread Jerry McAllister
Databases are stored in /var/db for security reasons Just curious... What are the security reasons? After some thought, here's what I'm planning on doing... Disk is 73gb scsi... / 500mb swap 4gb /var 4gb /usr 4gb /home remainder (about 60gb) then /var/db/mysql -

Re: /boot at beginning of drive

2006-04-17 Thread David J Brooks
On Monday 17 April 2006 16:59, Brendan Grossman wrote: Databases are stored in /var/db for security reasons Just curious... What are the security reasons? After some thought, here's what I'm planning on doing... Disk is 73gb scsi... / 500mb swap 4gb /var

Re: /boot at beginning of drive

2006-04-17 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Monday 17 April 2006 13:59, Brendan Grossman wrote: Databases are stored in /var/db for security reasons Just curious... What are the security reasons? After some thought, here's what I'm planning on doing... Disk is 73gb scsi... / 500mb swap 4gb /var

RE: /boot at beginning of drive

2006-04-17 Thread James Long
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 06:21:55 +0930 From: Brendan Grossman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: /boot at beginning of drive To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Where they use that quota is anyone's guess

RE: /boot at beginning of drive

2006-04-17 Thread Brendan Grossman
Databases are stored in /var/db for security reasons Just curious... What are the security reasons? After some thought, here's what I'm planning on doing... Disk is 73gb scsi... / 500mb swap4gb /var4gb /usr4gb /home remainder

Re: /boot at beginning of drive

2006-04-17 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Monday 17 April 2006 14:38, Brendan Grossman wrote: Databases are stored in /var/db for security reasons Just curious... What are the security reasons? After some thought, here's what I'm planning on doing... Disk is 73gb scsi... / 500mb

RE: /boot at beginning of drive

2006-04-17 Thread Brendan Grossman
On Monday 17 April 2006 14:38, Brendan Grossman wrote: Databases are stored in /var/db for security reasons Just curious... What are the security reasons? After some thought, here's what I'm planning on doing... Disk is 73gb scsi... /

Re: /boot at beginning of drive

2006-04-16 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 12:40 PM 4/16/2006, Brendan Grossman wrote: Hello I'm trying to install FreeBSD with the following partition scheme... /boot 100mb (50mb too small? Install fails with filesystem full error) swap 1gb /tmp 100mb / remainder However after I install and boot, it says it can't find

RE: /boot at beginning of drive

2006-04-16 Thread Brendan Grossman
-Original Message- From: Glenn Dawson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 17 April 2006 5:16 AM To: Brendan Grossman; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /boot at beginning of drive /boot has to be in the / file system. There's a rather lengthy thread about

Re: /boot at beginning of drive

2006-04-16 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Sunday 16 April 2006 11:59, Brendan Grossman wrote: -Original Message- From: Glenn Dawson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 17 April 2006 5:16 AM To: Brendan Grossman; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /boot at beginning of drive /boot has

RE: /boot at beginning of drive

2006-04-16 Thread Brendan Grossman
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

Re: /boot at beginning of drive

2006-04-16 Thread 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

RE: /boot at beginning of drive

2006-04-16 Thread Brendan Grossman
-Original Message- From: Beech Rintoul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 17 April 2006 6:19 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Brendan Grossman Subject: Re: /boot at beginning of drive On Sunday 16 April 2006 12:38, Brendan Grossman wrote: It's not a good idea

Re: /boot at beginning of drive

2006-04-16 Thread RW
On Sunday 16 April 2006 21:38, Brendan Grossman wrote: 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

Re: /boot at beginning of drive

2006-04-16 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Sunday 16 April 2006 12:51, Brendan Grossman wrote: -Original Message- From: Beech Rintoul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 17 April 2006 6:19 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Brendan Grossman Subject: Re: /boot at beginning of drive On Sunday 16 April

Re: /boot at beginning of drive

2006-04-16 Thread RW
On Sunday 16 April 2006 21:51, Brendan Grossman wrote: -Original Message- From: Beech Rintoul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 17 April 2006 6:19 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Brendan Grossman Subject: Re: /boot at beginning of drive On Sunday 16 April

Re: /boot at beginning of drive

2006-04-16 Thread Colin Percival
Brendan Grossman wrote: Here is my reason for separating /tmp and mounting it noexec,nosuid: http://www.sagonet.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2852 Quoth mount(8): noexec Do not allow execution of any binaries on the mounted file system. This option is useful

RE: /boot at beginning of drive

2006-04-16 Thread Brendan Grossman
Having a separate /tmp slice is not a bad idea, combining /, /usr, and /var is unless you're doing a very minimal install. I can separate /usr, but my goal is to combine /home and /var, or at least where mail and databases are stored, for reasons already mentioned. I suppose I could do

Re: /boot at beginning of drive

2006-04-16 Thread RW
On Sunday 16 April 2006 22:30, Brendan Grossman wrote: Having a separate /tmp slice is not a bad idea, combining /, /usr, and /var is unless you're doing a very minimal install. I can separate /usr, but my goal is to combine /home and /var, or at least where mail and databases are stored,

Re: /boot at beginning of drive

2006-04-16 Thread Kent Stewart
On Sunday 16 April 2006 14:19, Colin Percival wrote: Brendan Grossman wrote: Here is my reason for separating /tmp and mounting it noexec,nosuid: http://www.sagonet.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2852 Quoth mount(8): noexec Do not allow execution of any binaries on the

Re: /boot at beginning of drive

2006-04-16 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Sunday 16 April 2006 13:30, Brendan Grossman wrote: Having a separate /tmp slice is not a bad idea, combining /, /usr, and /var is unless you're doing a very minimal install. I can separate /usr, but my goal is to combine /home and /var, or at least where mail and databases are stored,