From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 20 21:52:54 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF3BE16D1DD for ; Tue, 20 Feb 2007 21:52:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jvender@owensboro.net) Received: from zoot.cinergycom.net (zoot.cinergycom.net [216.135.3.11]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB82713C491 for ; Tue, 20 Feb 2007 21:52:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jvender@owensboro.net) Received: from kntpin04-nas-03-s132.cinergycom.net ([216.135.25.132]) by zoot.cinergycom.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.52) id 1HJcuq-0004Od-5t; Tue, 20 Feb 2007 15:52:53 -0600 From: Joe Vender To: Lowell Gilbert Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 15:51:43 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 References: <200702192337.13712.jvender@owensboro.net> <44vehwy5zi.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <44vehwy5zi.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200702201551.44372.jvender@owensboro.net> X-CCC-Authenticated: jvender@owensboro.net zoot.cinergycom.net 216.135.25.132 20070220215253Z b4827eb3cce58b78a7bf46459d2355a0 X-CCC-Cleanmail-Virus-Signature: 9c45ced9223ea2a2f1a0f716d06bc909 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best partitioning scheme for my HDD? Please advise. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 21:52:55 -0000 On Tuesday 20 February 2007 13:38, Lowell Gilbert wrote: ... > In a system that tight for space (for running KDE, anyway), I would > just put all the space (aside from some swap) into a single root > partition. The risks of something running away and filling a > partition are much less of an issue than the risks of filling up a > partition with legitimate data and needing to play games to keep > everything installed. > > Greg Lehey has been recommending this approach in his books for at > least a couple of editions now. This is the approach I take with slackware, since I've never had any problems with system hangs/reboots using it. But, what concerns me about this approach when using FreeBSD is that I've had spontaneous reboot problems with FreeBSD. Although I think I've narrowed the solution down to just not using kernel ppp, since I get the reboots using pppd whether or not I've set debug.mpsafenet=0 on my system, there may be other issues involved. With everything under /, a spontaneous reboot might leave the filesystem corrupted and unusable, correct? I cound certainly try it, though, once I know that I've taken care of the rebooting issue for good. Joe