Re: [Fed-Talk] Put /var on a separate partition?
Re: [Fed-Talk] Put /var on a separate partition?
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] Put /var on a separate partition?
- From: "Marcus, Allan B" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 19:18:46 +0000
- Thread-topic: [Fed-Talk] Put /var on a separate partition?
In the age of 10 TB hard drives, the need to partition out file systems is
pretty unnecessary, and might only be needed for a very small group of
situations. The most likely situation are poorly managed machines. You
know, the ones where the admins let the hard drive get 95% full! :-)
Don¹t be too quick to encourage your Chief to switch away from Mac. The
probably choice will be the ³industry standard² - read Windoz.
BTW, even RedHat doesn¹t recommend partitioning var
<https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/h
tml/Installation_Guide/s2-diskpartrecommend-x86.html>
--
Thanks,
Allan Marcus
Chief IT Architect
Los Alamos National Laboratory
505-667-5666
email@hidden
If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always
got. [Albert Einstein]
On 7/18/14, 3:34 PM, "John Oliver" <email@hidden> wrote:
>Just because I could technically get around their brain-deadness with the
>hack of a symlink doesn¹t mean tearing out basic functionality that has
>existed in UNIX for decades was a good idea. I want to do this the RIGHT
>way, not implement a cheesy hack.
>
>Sorry if I sound frustrated, but that¹s because I am. I keep finding more
>and more brain-deadness in OS X, and I jumped for joy when I heard our
>ChEng wants to look at getting rid of Macs and go to something else.
>
>
>
>
>On 7/18/14, 10:27 AM, "Bryan Harris" <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>> On Jul 17, 2014, at 9:53 PM, "Shawn A. Geddis" <email@hidden>
>>>wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Jul 17, 2014, at 2:40 PM, John Oliver <email@hidden>
>>>>wrote:
>>>
>>>> This seems like it should be a pretty straightforward thingŠ
>>>> except, of course, Apple has to be Apple and abandon every industry
>>>>standard in favor of their own silly hodgepodge.
>>>
>>> Specific references ?
>>
>>They don't separate /var file system. At least I think that's what he
>>meant.
>>
>>Sent from my iPhone
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Has anyone done this, or given up in frustration?
>>>
>>>
>>> Have you tried using links from your main storage to alternate storage
>>>?
>>>
>>> NAME
>>> link, ln -- make links
>>>
>>> SYNOPSIS
>>> ln [-Ffhinsv] source_file [target_file]
>>> ln [-Ffhinsv] source_file ... target_dir
>>> link source_file target_file
>>>
>>> DESCRIPTION
>>> The ln utility creates a new directory entry (linked file) which
>>>has the same modes as the original file.
>>> It is useful for maintaining multiple copies of a file in many
>>>places at once without using up storage for
>>> the ``copies''; instead, a link ``points'' to the original copy.
>>>There are two types of links; hard links
>>> and symbolic links. How a link ``points'' to a file is one of the
>>>differences between a hard and symbolic
>>> link.
>>>
>>> This is standard POSIX and as noted in the man page for link, ln:
>>>
>>> STANDARDS
>>> The ln utility conforms to IEEE Std 1003.2-1992 (``POSIX.2'').
>>>
>>> The simplified link command conforms to Version 2 of the Single
>>>UNIX Specification (``SUSv2'').
>>>
>>>
>>> - Shawn
>>> _______________________
>>> Shawn Geddis
>>> Security Consulting Engineer
>>> Apple, Inc.
>>>
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