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From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
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Subject: Re: Slices
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On 2005-12-13 16:40, Pietro Cerutti <pietro.cerutti@gmail.com> wrote:
>On 12/13/05, RW <list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> wrote:
>>On Tuesday 13 December 2005 10:36, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>>>> OK. But then what would be ideal slice size for /, /var, /usr, /boot?
>>
>> There's no need for a boot partition; that's a Linux practice.
>
> You're right, but I don't feel it as a bad practice... mounting it
> read-only could prevent from many problems, don't you think?

It could also lead to other, more serious problems.  See the archives of
this mailing lists for reasons why it's discouraged in the FreeBSD
world.