From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 20 09:35:41 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A751106566B for ; Tue, 20 Dec 2011 09:35:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from unix.hacker@comcast.net) Received: from qmta14.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (qmta14.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net [76.96.59.212]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3929F8FC16 for ; Tue, 20 Dec 2011 09:35:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta19.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.98]) by qmta14.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id BMam1i00127AodY5EMbhXx; Tue, 20 Dec 2011 09:35:41 +0000 Received: from [192.168.2.2] ([68.43.224.227]) by omta19.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id BMbg1i00P4uzdYs3fMbh1U; Tue, 20 Dec 2011 09:35:41 +0000 Message-ID: <4EF056EB.7030403@comcast.net> Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 04:35:39 -0500 From: Allen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111105 Thunderbird/8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4EE32BB6.3020105@herveybayaustralia.com.au> <4EE38454.3020307@otenet.gr> <4EE3D1F0.60500@herveybayaustralia.com.au> <4989a3ebb7810ed26951cbbd23b7645c.squirrel@webmail.dabus.com> <4EE6943E.40400@herveybayaustralia.com.au> <006a01ccb9b7$df4f1f40$9ded5dc0$@fisglobal.com> <4EF02668.4070608@comcast.net> <4EF03EF6.20809@herveybayaustralia.com.au> In-Reply-To: <4EF03EF6.20809@herveybayaustralia.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: 9.0 install and journaling 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 Dec 2011 09:35:41 -0000 On 12/20/2011 2:53 AM, Da Rock wrote: > On 12/20/11 16:08, Allen wrote: >> On 12/13/2011 11:54 AM, Devin Teske wrote: >> *Snipping* >> >>>> On 12/13/11 06:00, Eric S Pulley wrote: >>>>>> As for one big / partition- linux may be using it: and its their >>>>>> biggest failing! I've had a system lockup due to lack of space. Never >>>>>> a problem with bsd as logs will only fill up var, a user won't break >>>>>> it with filling up usr, etc. And root always stays protected! Its >>>>>> saved my life a number of times... I can quickly fill TB's of data in >>>>>> no time, and if something goes bang the logs can be a silent >>>>>> killer too. My >>> 2c's >>>> anyway... >> I didn't know there WERE any Linux distros that still used one root >> partition, and one swap... Even Mandriva doesn't do that anymore. >> >> > Fedora for one... I haven't used Fedora in a VERY long time. I hate it almost as much as I hate Gentoo. Anyway, one distro out of close to 300 isn't bad. -Allen