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Date:      Sat, 31 May 1997 12:07:54 -0800 (AKDT)
From:      Steve Howe <un_x@anchorage.net>
To:        Sinuralan <sin@cowz.lumiere-cc.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: single filesystem?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970531120522.257A-100000@aak.anchorage.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970531010608.17249A-100000@cowz.lumiere-cc.com>

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On Sat, 31 May 1997, Sinuralan wrote:

> Heya,

hey!

> I was wondering if it was necessary to have three file systems (/, /usr,
> /var), which seems to be the default. It seems like it'd be much more
> convenient to have them all in one filesystem, and not have to worry about
> logfiles/mail/tmp killing the /var section, or any similar occurances.

you can do that if you want.  but then what if your file system fills
because something went wrong and a logfile filled it up ...
how would you log in to fix anything?
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