Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 11:37:10 -0400 From: Jonathan Vomacka <juvix88@gmail.com> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 8.2 Partition Sizing question Message-ID: <4E721BA6.3090701@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4E70F8A3.4010700@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <4E70F1FA.1040407@gmail.com> <957E5375-556A-4145-9508-4354B31DCB25@mac.com> <4E70F8A3.4010700@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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Thanks again Matthew On 9/14/2011 2:55 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 14/09/2011 19:31, Chuck Swiger wrote: >> On Sep 14, 2011, at 11:27 AM, Jonathan Vomacka wrote: >>>> In regards to partitioning, I have a question regarding a "rumor" >>>> that has been told to me by various different linux experts, and >>>> I wanted to confirm if this also takes place with FreeBSD Unix. >>>> In the past, I have always had the root filesystem (/) and the >>>> /usr filesystem all on seperate partitions. I was told that >>>> having /usr on a seperate partition is an "old" way of doing >>>> things and actually causes issues when /usr is mounted separately >>>> from root (/). Does this play true in FreeBSD or is that thought >>>> process nonsense? I was told to create a larger root filesystem >>>> and NOT create usr seperately as /usr will mount off the root >>>> filesystem anyway. Will there be any issues by having /usr on a >>>> separate partition then root? I will like to know any opinions on >>>> this, as well as suggestions based on how other FreeBSD guru's >>>> have their server setups. > >> There is nothing wrong with having / and /usr on separate partitions; >> in fact, there are some mild advantages to fine-grained partitioning >> for folks who pay attention to their filesystem space usage. >> However, there is nothing wrong with a single root partition (well, >> and swap partition), either. > > Use ZFS and you can put / and /usr on different filesystems (zfses), > without any need to worry about not having made any of those filesystems > big enough. (Since all the free space is held in common for all of the > zfses on the same zpool.) The best of both worlds. > > Cheers, > > Matthew >
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