Date: Thu, 07 May 1998 16:40:41 -0500 From: MIKE JENKINS <jenkins.mike@epamail.epa.gov> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Writable /usr? Message-ID: <s551e442.042@wpmail.gbr.epa.gov>
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On Thu, 7 May 1998 09:20:35 +0930, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> wrote: >Having many partitions is Evil. It increases the likelihood that you >will run out of space on one partition while having enough space on >the disk. If you really believed this, you'd have a / and swap partition only. It'd be just like the DOS/Win/NT folks with the C: drive. By default the install wants a /, swap, /var, and /usr. These are where the OS goes. Size these appropriately for the usage of your machine and then add a /home for the user files. This should work fine for most installs. More complex installers know what they are doing and will add partitions like /usr/src, /usr/local, /var/spool/news, multiple swaps/roots, etc. Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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