[Workaround.org] [lenny-alpha] Please help proofread the installation chapter

Emmanuel Revah stsil at manurevah.com
Mon Jun 15 15:45:59 CEST 2009


Le Lun 15 juin 2009 15:24, Daniel A. Ramaley a écrit :
> On 2009-06-14 at 14:53:07, Christoph Haas wrote:
>>> /tmp
>>
>>I tend to put /tmp on an LVM only with large MySQL database that tend
>> to create huge temporary tables. /tmp shouldn't be used much
>> otherwise. Or am I wrong? (Hmm, suddenly I wonder where amavis/clamav
>> scan their files.)
>
> I usually put /tmp on a memory file system. Like this in fstab:
>     tmpfs           /tmp            tmpfs   mode=1777,size=256M 0  0
> 256 MB is usually overkill. By making it a memory file system i don't
> worry about old files possibly surviving a reboot.
>
>>> /home
>>
>>Would you really have a /home on a mail server? I would naturally only
>>login as root who has the home directory at /root. Other users don't
>>really belong there or do they?
>
> I wouldn't. On the mail server i just set up a few weeks ago, i
> have /boot, /, /tmp, and /var. Mail is in /var/vmail; i agree with
> another poster that putting it in /home is weird. For an extremely busy
> server i could see splitting /var into multiple partitions, but
> splitting the rest up any further seems unnecessary.

Maybe the whole partitioning part could just be considered as a very
useful pointer more than a condition to get the email server functioning
with some pros and cons or something that help people understand why and
then adapt the whole thing to their own requirements.

>
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