Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 21:48:47 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: Peter Brock <peer@interquad.net> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Root Partitions Message-ID: <20001221214846.B20035@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <007d01c06bc8$1da110e0$0600a8c0@Home>; from "Peter Brock" on Thu Dec 21 22:34:38 GMT 2000 References: <007d01c06bc8$1da110e0$0600a8c0@Home>
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In the last episode (Dec 21), Peter Brock said: > Alright i wanna spark a debate.. Can someone tell me why it is > recomended to devided your hd into seperate slices for / /usr and > /var? Why not put everything on a single partition and be done with > it? I have a few setups with just a root partition and everything is > working great. I also find making backups to other media ie. cloaning > hds easier with this setup then subdividing your disk into slices. > Can someone shed some light unto why it is recomemded to partition > off the disk? The reasons I've usually seen are: 1) To guarantee that the kernel (which lives in /) is under the 1024-cylinder BIOS boot limit. I don't think our loader has this problem anymore, though. 2) To keep a full /usr from also filling up /var, where logfiles and other important files live. For a personal box, this isn't much of a problem. 3) To make sure that if /usr gets damaged, you've at least got a minimal system in /. I may not be remembering this right, since it doesn't make much sense. Modern disks have sector sparing and early-warning notification so you know when the media's going bad, and FFS had been stable for a long time. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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