Re: Hammer FS: imposing a size limit on PFS?

[Jurij Kovacic <jurij.kovacic@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you very much for your reply.

Matthias Schmidt wrote:

> You do not have to take care about the sizes of the PFS.  They are all
> on top of the native HAMMER partition so they share the capacity.  There
> was a very good post from Matt on PFS some days ago ... so have a look in the
> archives.

What I found confusing was that the installer states that "There is no 
need to create separate slices for /var, /home ..." on account of PFS.

If PFSs /var, /home, / ... share the same native HAMMER partition then, 
for example, a malicious user could cause the whole system to run out of 
disk space by placing/creating a large file in his home directory. 
Likewise, an overgrown log file residing in /var could cause the same 
"side effects".

This is why I wanted to implement the following partitioning scheme:

/ 256MB
swap 4G
/usr 5G
/var 5G
/home 2G
/jails 50G

but found that 256MB..or even 1G was not enough for root partition, 
since the installer ran out of disk space.

This prompted my question: how large should the root partition for the 
install?

Kind regards,
Jurij Kovacic