Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 23:44:58 +0200 From: platanthera <platanthera@web.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help with editing partition tables Message-ID: <200405172344.58566.platanthera@web.de> In-Reply-To: <16552.54598.83332.525181@jerusalem.litteratus.org> References: <49232.207.6.29.101.1084767451.squirrel@webmail.freeshell.org> <200405171321.44527.platanthera@web.de> <16552.54598.83332.525181@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
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On Monday 17 May 2004 17:07, Robert Huff wrote: > platanthera writes: > > you could (and definitely should) have a separate slice for /tmp > > and eventually another one for /home too. > > May I ask your logic here? Is this about safety, convenience, > overcrowding? You noticed that I accidently mixed up slices with partitions, didn't you? Separating /usr, /tmp and /var from the / filesystem (a) reduces write access to the / fs significantly, thus increasing your chances to get away without serious trouble in cases of enforced hard reboot (power failure etc.) and (b) allows you to take advantage of soft updates for the non-/ fs' which results in better fs performance (which is probably not very important for /tmp). Whether you create a separate /home partition or not on a single user machine is more or less a matter of your individual preferences. regards
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