Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 12:50:54 -0500 (CDT) From: igor@alecto.physics.uiuc.edu (Igor Roshchin) To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Default partitioning Message-ID: <199709171750.MAA00640@alecto.physics.uiuc.edu>
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Mentioning the new release reminded me about a few questions/suggestions I have been having in mind for a long time. These are not the major issues, but still... 1. Standard /etc/crontab has an entry which does not always work! TO be more exact, it does not work once an year, and probably works twice a day also once an year. I am talking about : 0 2 * * * root /etc/daily 2>&1 | sendmail root Since the time switch from xST to xDT and back happen to be at 2 am, we have the problem mentioned above. I always change this time to some other. IMO, it is better to have nothing in the crontab to be run between 1 and 3 am. 2. Standard partitioning - when you install FreeBSD on a new box you have a choice to use some "Standard" partitioning. (here I use partion=slice - just FreeBSD's partitions/slices) Working with the systems which sometimes were installed by people who were not very knowledgable (or, I'd better say who knew less than me) about partitions and why do you need to have all those separate. So, by default one would get something like: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/wd0a 31775 16373 12860 56% / /dev/wd0s1f 1008815 325777 602333 35% /usr /dev/wd0s1e 29727 1811 25538 7% /var I think it is much more logical for the people who have disk which is big enough (say 1Gb and bigger) to have separate partition for /home rather than having /home on /usr Having /home on a separate partition would allow to mount that partition with -nosuid option (which is rather logical -- why would one want to have their users to have suid programs in their home directories) There are other reasons why one might want to have /home on a separate partition. Possible solution ? - One of them I can see is to make a new option there : default for a small disk (as it is now), and default for larger (>= 1G) disk. Regards! IgoR
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