Re: [cobalt-users] RAQ4i : webserver down

[Jeff Lasman <blists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 17 December 2003 01:26 am, Zeffie wrote:

> I think they have a "poor hard drive
> partition schema" for people that are messy and do things they
> shouldn't.  I would like a separate drive for /var and I guess /usr
> would be nice too but I don't have much to put on there for the
> majority of my customers...

They have a poor partition schema (as you call it) for anyone who hosts 
a few thousand email addresses that get a lot of spam, for anyone who 
has a high turnover in email addresses (for example, an ISP), etc., 
because the logs fill up /var quite quickly.

In fact they have a poor partition schema for anyone who uses email at 
all; that's why they (early in the game) realized they needed to 
symlink /var/spool/mail to /home/spool/mail.

We can fix many of the problems, yes, by symbolic links, but that 
doesn't change that it's still a poor schema.

> btw... I have moved the entire /usr to /home and it boots,  but I
> didn't test it much since it was a devel drive about to be
> restored...  maybe on the next re-build

The question would be "does it mount early enough so everything that 
needs to get started at boot time that's in /usr get's started.  I've 
never checked to see if there's anything in /usr that even gets started 
by startup scripts, so I'm not sure.  That would be what to look for.

The other problem with symbolic links occurs when you use tar to backup 
whole directory trees or whole partitions.

And putting mail and /var/logs into /home (for example) is NOT a good 
idea; it can (and does on older RaQs) often result in /home being 
filled.

Also, the lack of a /tmp partition is the specific reason why your 
clients with 20 meg mailboxes (for example) filled above 10 meg call 
you when they can't download their email.

Jeff
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