Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 20:04:18 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: / almost out of space just after installation Message-ID: <20091010200418.8e880250.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20091010173608.GC4669@guilt.hydra> References: <200910071110.n97BANiE012861@lurza.secnetix.de> <4acd9c98.Mf06e1KlRm%2BblPrD%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <e277d6c80910082339m229ecd6bqfbadd12a6fb7f116@mail.gmail.com> <20091010173608.GC4669@guilt.hydra>
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On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 11:36:08 -0600, Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> wrote: > Someone mentioned giving the `home` directory its own partition. I think > a separate partition for /usr/home, mounted within /usr, is a great idea. > It would help substantially with system rebuilds, backups, and using > separate drives for `home`, because that's where the majority of the > stuff you want to keep between installs will reside. Basically > everything else within /usr (with the possible exception of > /usr/local/etc) is just what happens when you install and configure your > system in the first place. If you can estimate disk requirements good enough, or simply have huge hard disks that can compensate any requirements, there's no problem giving /home a separate partition. There's no need to put the mountpoint into /usr, because /home could "physically" exist; in the "home in usr" setting, /home is just a symlink to /usr/home. Personally, I often put /home on a separate partition, simply because of comfortability. If I can't say enough about how /usr and /home will grow, I go with the default approach. I sometimes even use the "one big /" setting. One advantage of /home as a separate partition is that you can easily use dump to create a backup - you simply backup the whole partition. You could have a directory, let's say /home/settings, where you keep duplicates of /etc, /usr/local/etc and other files that contain settings you consider worth being backed up. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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