From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 21 19:34:15 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 21 19:34:13 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from e450.mnsi.net (e450.mnsi.net [206.48.122.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3969237B400 for ; Thu, 21 Dec 2000 19:34:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from lan4 (dyn206-48-125-60.ADSL.mnsi.net [206.48.125.60]) by e450.mnsi.net (8.8.8/waffleiron) with SMTP id WAA17263 for ; Thu, 21 Dec 2000 22:34:07 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <007d01c06bc8$1da110e0$0600a8c0@Home> From: "Peter Brock" To: "FreeBSD-Questions" Subject: Root Partitions Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 22:34:38 -0500 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Alright i wanna spark a debate.. Can someone tell me why it is recomended to devided your hd into seperate slices for / /usr and /var? Why not put everything on a single partition and be done with it? I have a few setups with just a root partition and everything is working great. I also find making backups to other media ie. cloaning hds easier with this setup then subdividing your disk into slices. Can someone shed some light unto why it is recomemded to partition off the disk? Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a 18G 994M 16G 6% / procfs 4.0K 4.0K 0B 100% /proc Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a 18891030 1017555 16362193 6% 96816 4625102 2% / procfs 4 4 0 100% 41 491 8% /proc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message