From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 22 6:37:28 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 22 06:37:27 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from falcon.scana.com (falcon.scana.com [161.156.101.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5E8A37B400 for ; Fri, 22 Dec 2000 06:37:26 -0800 (PST) Received: by falcon.scana.com; id JAA22652; Fri, 22 Dec 2000 09:37:24 -0500 (EST) Received: from maildmis.scana.com(161.156.252.90) by falcon.scana.com via smap (V5.5) id xma022631; Fri, 22 Dec 00 09:36:55 -0500 Received: from msg21.scana.com [161.156.252.90] by MSG21.SCANA.COM [161.156.252.90] (CMSPraetor 4.1.3395) with ESMTP id 95CAEE75D77311D4B0900002A507E1C8 for ; Fri, 22 Dec 2000 09:36:29 -0500 Received: by maildmis.scana.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Fri, 22 Dec 2000 09:36:29 -0500 Message-ID: From: "SILVER, MICHAEL A" To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: RE: newbie question from "Complete FreeBSD book" Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 09:36:28 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Greg Lehey > > > I don't speak for Greg, but I think he suggests creating a single > > partition. I know there are arguments back and forth, but I think > > the old argument is root gets very little write access, and > > therefore should be seperate from /var, /etc, etc. Perhaps to > > prevent the root from crashing with another parition. > > No, in this edition I suggest two partitions, / and /usr. In the next > edition I'll suggest a single partition of up to 4 GB, and additional > partitions if the available disk space is larger. > This isn't what I recommend in the Third Edition, > but it's a lot simpler. MICHAEL, by chance you have stumbled on the > recommendation that will be in the next edition. You don't need to > worry about /var and /tmp in this scenario. My bad. I must have seen this in the last thread. I haven't had to use your book for several months now, so I am a bit rusty. :-) ...Michael... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message