From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 6 2:56:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mobil.cz (diana.mobil.cz [194.228.200.160]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C01A37B405 for ; Wed, 6 Mar 2002 02:56:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from ester.mobil.cz (ester.mobil.cz [194.213.62.23]) by mobil.cz (8.11.6/8.11.0) with ESMTP id g26Aum131488 for ; Wed, 6 Mar 2002 11:56:48 +0100 Received: from roman.mobil.cz ([10.2.0.89]) by ester.mobil.cz (Lotus Domino Release 5.0.7) with ESMTP id 2002030611525151:1114 ; Wed, 6 Mar 2002 11:52:51 +0100 Received: (from roman@localhost) by roman.mobil.cz (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g26BA1L57570 for questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 6 Mar 2002 12:10:01 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from neuhauser@mobil.cz) X-Authentication-Warning: roman.mobil.cz: roman set sender to neuhauser@mobil.cz using -f Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 12:10:00 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: filesystems Message-ID: <20020306111000.GI35221@roman.mobil.cz> Mail-Followup-To: questions@freebsd.org References: <46294783@toto.iv> <15493.56451.886414.268929@guru.mired.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <15493.56451.886414.268929@guru.mired.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.26i X-MIMETrack: Itemize by SMTP Server on ester/Mobil(Release 5.0.7 |March 21, 2001) at 03/06/2002 11:52:51 AM, Serialize by Router on ester/Mobil(Release 5.0.7 |March 21, 2001) at 03/06/2002 11:52:57 AM, Serialize complete at 03/06/2002 11:52:57 AM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 03:08:19 -0600 > To: Brian T.Schellenberger > Cc: questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: filesystems > From: "Mike Meyer" > > Brian T.Schellenberger types: > > On Monday 04 March 2002 11:57 pm, Patrick Fish wrote: > > > My disk layout looks like this: > > > > > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > > > /dev/ad0s1a 18G 2.7G 14G 16% / > > > procfs 4.0K 4.0K 0B 100% /proc > > > ........ > > > Would it be a good idea to break the major dirs into seperate partitions? > > > > I prefer it that way, but it's simpler in many ways to just have one--you > > never wind up shuffling bits of your system around when the ratio between > > partition sizes turns out to be wrong. > > > > The big drawback is that if your f/s ever gets trashed, *everything* is gone, > > including the partition that you might have wanted to stick around to > > facilitate recovery. > > That's true, but 1) FreeBSD file systems are *much* more robust than > they were in 1990. this is a very common claim my experience grossly contradicts. I mean, I started using freebsd last year, so I cannot comment on filesystems from 12 years ago, but my experience suggests that FFS is much more fragile than anything else I've seen. heck, windows (FAT, NTFS4/5) crashed on me countless times, but I don't remember seeing a windows system unbootable due to fs corruption. put FreeBSD, Xfree86, and a graphic card X doesn't quite grok in the mix, and you may quite soon end up looking at a spontaneous reboot that ends with "btx halt" (happened to me on a 4.4-RELEASE/GENERIC just two days ago). -- FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE 11:52AM up 6 days, 13 hrs, 16 users, load averages: 0.08, 0.03, 0.00 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message