No /tmp, /usr and /var volumes?

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stephanelefou

Hi, My FreeBSD 9.1 works fine but I just noticed that I don't have any of the following volumes (or folders):
/tmp
/usr
/var

df -h shows the following:
Code: 
Filesystem      Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/ada0p2      33G     14G     16G    48%    /
devfs           1.0k    1.0k      0B   100%    /dev
/dev/ada1s1d    451G    365G     49G    88%    /500GB
procfs          4.0k    4.0k      0B   100%    /proc

And my fstab file goes like this:
Code: 
# Device	Mountpoint	FStype	Options	Dump	Pass#
/dev/ada0p2	/		ufs	rw	1	1
/dev/ada0p3	none		swap	sw	0	0
/dev/ada1s1d	/500GB		ufs	rw	2	2
proc	/proc	procfs	rw	0	0

What do you think? Should the /tmp, /usr and /var volumes be there? If so, what should I do?

Thanks.
 
The default (i.e., guided) installation creates a single / partition, /dev/ada0p2 in your case, which includes /tmp, /usr and /var as directories. If you want to have separate filesystems for them, you have to manually configure your drive at installation. There is nothing wrong with your installation.
 
It really depends on the use of the system. On a single user system, a pure desktop machine for example, there's very little point in putting those filesystem on separate partitions. On a server where security is much more important it's almost mandatory to put /tmp and /var on separate filesystems so that filling one filesystem doesn't lock up the whole system.
 
If you have enough memory you can load tmpfs(5) for /tmp. I've been using it for quite some time now and it works really well.
 
Thanks for the input. Actually, my server mostly consists in a storage utility (music, movies, pictures...) as well as a C/C++/Perl development box. It only has 1GB or ram but plently of disk space. My concern right now is that those IDE drives are not being sold anymore so I will soon be looking into a migration project in order to avoid data loss. In the meantime, I've made a backup on another box but wait, I'm off topic here :)
 
SirDice said:
If you have enough memory you can load tmpfs(5) for /tmp. I've been using it for quite some time now and it works really well.
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Greetings, @SirDice.
I remember your mentioning this in another thread earlier. I'm looking to experiment with this myself. I don't suppose you've documented your application of this anywhere?

Thanks.

--Chris

UPDATE: Never mind. I think your earlier reply to me here:
https://forums.freebsd.org/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=45210
covers it. :)
 
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