[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] RE: [FW1] Partition for Solaris
With the second option. What happens when you get hit with say a DoS Attack, and the FW is logging, logging away. Until it just crashes, because *all* available disk space is used. In my opinion, this is just trouble waiting to happen. You would be better off keeping separate partitions. ~Doug -----Original Message----- From: James Edwards [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2000 9:26 AM To: 'Brian Tan Wee Beng'; [email protected] Subject: RE: [FW1] Partition for Solaris This is almost a religious debate. Some people say you should partition all the separate OS file systems (/ /opt /var /usr /export/home swap) into their own partitions and some say just make it one big chunk with the only thing separate being swap. I used to be one of the former persuasion until I tried the latter and I am convinced that is the way to go, especially on something like a firewall where you don't have users logging in to the operating system. With the days of having to shoehorn a 1 GB operating system into a 1 GB disk behind us, I take the normal 18 GB disk drive and use 4 GB for the root partition (full install of Solaris 8 needs about 2.3 GB) , double my memory (or use a minimum of 2 GB) for the swap partition and make the rest for logs. You can do symbolic link to anywhere you like for the log directory. I would also set up a periodic log switch, move your old logs somewhere else and compress them. This works very well for me. Jim Edwards Systems Manager Texas Secretary of State -----Original Message----- From: Brian Tan Wee Beng [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2000 6:45 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [FW1] Partition for Solaris Hi, I'm installing CP on a Solaris machine for the first time.Can someone supply me with info on how to partition the harddisk,for example size per partition???My customer requirement is to store the logs for a year but i'm not too sure where exactly are the logs store.Is it in the /opt parition or /var partition??Is there any standard practice??Thanks. Cheers _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. ============================================================================ ==== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, please see the instructions at http://www.checkpoint.com/services/mailing.html ============================================================================ ==== ============================================================================ ==== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, please see the instructions at http://www.checkpoint.com/services/mailing.html ============================================================================ ==== ================================================================================ To unsubscribe from this mailing list, please see the instructions at http://www.checkpoint.com/services/mailing.html ================================================================================
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