<p dir="ltr">We use VMS as test environment so having a 10-20 G drive prevents storage abuse.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Elsewhere I have quota turned on. Faculty get soft notices only. Others get a soft notice then a hard lock out. Without it, they download everything.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 9, 2014 2:51 PM, "Lightner, Jeff" <<a href="mailto:JLightner@dsservices.com">JLightner@dsservices.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I disagree. One benefit to having multiple filesystems is you keep people from seeing one huge chunk and deciding it's a great dumping ground. After more than 20 years of doing this on UNIX and more than 10 on Linux I can count on one hand the number of times I've found issues related to separate filesystems as opposed to the plethora I've seen when it is all on one.<br>
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I think creating a seperate partition for /var (at least) is counter productive. If /var fills up, your machine is going to go down because a lot of services will hang if they can't write to the syslog. Similar logic applies to /usr. I can see having a seperate partion for /home but that is about it.<br>
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On 12/09/2014 10:43 AM, James Sumners wrote:<br>
> I've been asked to research how others layout their filesystems in<br>
> virtual machines. I long ago decided it wasn't worth splitting stuff<br>
> like /var off onto its own partition. I particularly don't think it's<br>
> necessary in a virtual machine. But I need to get some other opinions<br>
> before I can be validated in mine.<br>
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> So, how do you guys partition the filesystems in your virtual machines?<br>
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