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Date:      Thu, 21 Dec 2000 23:08:15 -0500 (EST)
From:      Doug Denault <doug@safeport.com>
To:        Peter Brock <peer@interquad.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Root Partitions
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.1001221230348.85631A-100000@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <007d01c06bc8$1da110e0$0600a8c0@Home>

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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
> 
> 
> 
> 
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