[rescue] Ultra 30 and Maximum Drive Size

[George Adkins]

>   - if you have, say, your home directories in the same filesystem as
>     the mailspools, and someone fills up the filesystem with crap
>     or something on awry, mail will start bouncing
>
here's some more,

I even go so far as to put /var/mail on it's own slice when I build a 
mailserver, imagine spam/mime trash packing your mailspool space and not 
having any more space available for /var/log/messages or /var/log/authlog, 
etc...

what if one of your filesystems develops a _SERIOUS_ problem?  If you have 
your filesystem segmented, you may at least be able to get / mounted, and 
maybe even /usr to get access to the tools you need to get the error fixed, 
or at least get the data off the disk.

spreading filesystems like /home or /export onto other disks may be useful 
when you have large disc acreage.  Besides, try to dump(8) or ufsdump(1M) a 
super-size filesystem on limited size media(tape).

/temp might even deserve it's own whole disk on a very large multiuser system 
with lots technical user activity.