Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 23:07:29 -0600 (CST) From: Bruce Albrecht <bruce@zuhause.mn.org> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: jord@gnawk.dial.eunet.es, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Partitioning 3.5 G HD for FreeBSD Message-ID: <199802040507.XAA16559@zuhause.mn.org> In-Reply-To: <19980131102711.28276@lemis.com> References: <199801302350.AAA00671@gnawk.dial.eunet.es> <19980131102711.28276@lemis.com>
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Greg Lehey writes: > There's no reason to have separate file systems for /usr/src and > /usr/local. Some people prefer a separate /var file system, but I > don't recommend that either. Instead create a directory /usr/var and > make /var a symlink to that directory. I like to split things out into different partitions, because it can make it easier to back up filesystems if one's disks are larger than a single tape's capacity.
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