From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 17 22:55:05 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA26607 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 22:55:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from frmug.org (frmug-gw.frmug.org [193.56.58.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA26592 for ; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 22:54:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from roberto@keltia.freenix.fr) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by frmug.org (8.8.8/frmug-2.1/nospam) with UUCP id HAA26351 for hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 18 Nov 1997 07:54:44 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from roberto@keltia.freenix.fr) Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.8.8/keltia-2.13/nospam) id HAA08048; Tue, 18 Nov 1997 07:26:16 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from roberto) Message-ID: <19971118072616.63159@keltia.freenix.fr> Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1997 07:26:16 +0100 From: Ollivier Robert To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Partitioning suggestions? References: <19971118014332.38551@keltia.freenix.fr> <199711180211.VAA18014@earth.mat.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88 In-Reply-To: <199711180211.VAA18014@earth.mat.net>; from chuckr@glue.umd.edu on Mon, Nov 17, 1997 at 09:11:18PM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT ctm#3818 AMD-K6 MMX @ 208 MHz Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk According to chuckr@glue.umd.edu: > Absolutely no sarcasm here, I'm honestly curious why you'd want to have > so many filesystems. I would think that (unless you were a major Old habits die hard. I have space enough so it is not a problem and I like to have things in their own filsystems. It has IMO several advantages: - you have have different policies for area (e.g. the area for /usr/obj is mounted "async,noatime" and I don't want "/usr" to be "async"), - it is easier to recover when you have a problem (I have 7.6 GB of disk and parallel fsck works fine when I have a crash), - it is easier to backup, remember that our dump doesn't support subdirectories, - having a big "/" for everything opens the door for problems (losing a file in /tmp could result of failing reboot), - it helps when you want to implement quotas (I don't use them personnally), - I like it that way :-) > invoestor in a drive manufacturer) you'd be exaggerating the chance of > having one be overloaded, and then need to either reformat or swap out > to another, bigger disk, much more often than I. This is a possibility but I generally size them large enough. When I need space, "nullfs" & symlinks are my friends. I generally buy a disk a year and the new disk is often the one I'll boot from and it gives me the opportunity to resize partitions when I install the new disk. > A friend who programs a lot shocked me by saying that she regularly > installs just one big partition, for /,/usr/ the whole works. I'd > never done that myself, but I've been trying to come up with some solid > reason why it's a bad idea. I like things neatly separated, thanks. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-CURRENT #49: Sat Nov 15 20:03:33 CET 1997