From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 21 20: 8:22 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 21 20:08:20 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 012BA37B400 for ; Thu, 21 Dec 2000 20:08:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by fledge.watson.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id eBM48Gp86003; Thu, 21 Dec 2000 23:08:16 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from doug@safeport.com) X-Authentication-Warning: fledge.watson.org: doug owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 23:08:15 -0500 (EST) From: Doug Denault X-Sender: doug@fledge.watson.org To: Peter Brock Cc: FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: Root Partitions In-Reply-To: <007d01c06bc8$1da110e0$0600a8c0@Home> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG k - I'll bite. An argument for a separate /var is run away syslog can not bring down the system, just shuts off syslog. Of course on the other side if /var is too small lots of things fail. For the most part these can be symlink'd out. On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Peter Brock wrote: > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message