Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 15:05:22 -0500 (EST) From: Tim McMillen <timcm@umich.edu> To: James Raftery <jraftery@wrdp.com> Cc: Peter Brock <peer@interquad.net>, FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Root Partitions Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.10.10012221500370.18890-100000@battlezone.gpcc.itd.umich.edu> In-Reply-To: <017301c06bfb$ae7747f0$340410ac@JRAFTERY>
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Ok, I've seen this recommendation a lot now. Is this because the ffs filesystem is so much more robust now than it was? Because reading through the 4.4BSD SMM it strongly recommends different partitions to guard against problems in one filesystem taking out the whole system. As a home user, downtime really doesn't matter to me. I make backups and if I had to reinstall due to filesystem corruption, I would be fine. But I like to understand the security and reliability implications of what I do. So I take it separate filesystems are not as necessary as they once were? Thanks, Tim On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, James Raftery wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Peter Brock" <peer@interquad.net> > To: "FreeBSD-Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> > Sent: Friday, December 22, 2000 3:34 AM > Subject: Root Partitions > > > > 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. > > For the average home user I would suggest using a single slice for / and > be done with it. It's less hassle, more flexible and not likely to cause > any problems. > But for a busy/important machine compartmentalising limits the scope of > any filesystem issues to bring down to whole machine, for the reasons > given by the others in this thread. > > > Regards, > > james > > > > 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
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