From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 22 7:15:22 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 22 07:15:19 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46F9B37B400 for ; Fri, 22 Dec 2000 07:15:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by fledge.watson.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id eBMFFCX31903; Fri, 22 Dec 2000 10:15:12 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from doug@safeport.com) X-Authentication-Warning: fledge.watson.org: doug owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 10:15:12 -0500 (EST) From: Doug Denault X-Sender: doug@fledge.watson.org To: "SILVER, MICHAEL A" Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: RE: newbie question from "Complete FreeBSD book" In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG There are (at least) two threads going on this topic. One idea I have not see mentioned is to separate your data from the O/S. This has obvious advantages for backup/restore but also for upgrading the O/S. I think for the home user the various ways of partitioning FreeBSD may very well be irrelavent or at of little interest until more experience is gained. Protecting our data is user of all levels can (should?) relate to. On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, SILVER, MICHAEL A wrote: > > -----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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message