From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 9 05:16:37 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C88F16A4CE for ; Wed, 9 Mar 2005 05:16:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: from hosea.tallye.com (joel.tallye.com [216.99.199.78]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6182343D5C for ; Wed, 9 Mar 2005 05:16:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lorenl@alzatex.com) Received: from hosea.tallye.com (hosea.tallye.com [127.0.0.1]) by hosea.tallye.com (8.12.8/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j295GXqS017416 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 8 Mar 2005 21:16:33 -0800 Received: (from sttng359@localhost) by hosea.tallye.com (8.12.8/8.12.10/Submit) id j295GW8K017414; Tue, 8 Mar 2005 21:16:32 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: hosea.tallye.com: sttng359 set sender to lorenl@alzatex.com using -f Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 21:16:32 -0800 From: "Loren M. Lang" To: Bob Johnson Message-ID: <20050309051632.GP30896@alzatex.com> References: <422792AA.1080301@wilderness.homeip.net> <200503031839.15265.jesse@wingnet.net> <4227AF9F.5070308@eng.ufl.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="QWpDgw58+k1mSFBj" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4227AF9F.5070308@eng.ufl.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-GPG-Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc X-GPG-Fingerprint: B3B9 D669 69C9 09EC 1BCD 835A FAF3 7A46 E4A3 280C cc: Jesse Guardiani cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /boot like linux! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 05:16:37 -0000 --QWpDgw58+k1mSFBj Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 07:45:19PM -0500, Bob Johnson wrote: > Jesse Guardiani wrote: >=20 > >On Thursday 03 March 2005 5:41 pm, [someone] wrote: > >=20 > > > >>It's *best* to make more =20 > >>partitions (esp for /var) so that if something goes out of control=20 > >>logging, or you just neglect your logs, it doesn't go and fill up your= =20 > >>only (ie / ) partition. Like most *nix OS's, it can be as simple or as= =20 > >>complicated as you want it to be. > >> =20 > >> > > > >I want / + /boot. It's that simple. A /boot for FreeBSD should really be unneccessary, that is more of a necessity in the past and more of a linux thing anyways, but I don't use one even on my linux systems anymore. > > > >=20 > > >=20 > What are you really trying to accomplish? You want to run softupdates=20 > on / ? >=20 > I believe it is perfectly acceptable to use softupdates on the root=20 > partition these > days. The Handbook recommends turning on softupdates for all filesystems= .=20 > See > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/configtuning-di= sk.html >=20 > I'm pretty sure my test system at home has only / and swap (because it > has a small hard drive), and uses softupdates on /. I'll check when I get > home. >=20 > If you have some other reason for separating /boot from /, explain your= =20 > actual > goal, and perhaps we can help. >=20 > - Bob >=20 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" --=20 I sense much NT in you. NT leads to Bluescreen. Bluescreen leads to downtime. Downtime leads to suffering. NT is the path to the darkside. Powerful Unix is. Public Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc Fingerprint: CEE1 AAE2 F66C 59B5 34CA C415 6D35 E847 0118 A3D2 =20 --QWpDgw58+k1mSFBj Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCLoawbTXoRwEYo9IRAtDTAJ9rWKd1AQ1rwSyhO7ET2FzJ5ncDqQCfUCn+ s0FgJwckq6vw3s14din7iMQ= =eoaj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --QWpDgw58+k1mSFBj--