From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 20 16:21:52 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BAEA1065670 for ; Sun, 20 Nov 2011 16:21:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jerrymc@gizmo.acns.msu.edu) Received: from gizmo.acns.msu.edu (gizmo.acns.msu.edu [35.8.1.43]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08CDD8FC0A for ; Sun, 20 Nov 2011 16:21:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from gizmo.acns.msu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gizmo.acns.msu.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id pAKGHqdG024809; Sun, 20 Nov 2011 11:17:52 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jerrymc@gizmo.acns.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by gizmo.acns.msu.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id pAKGHqOQ024808; Sun, 20 Nov 2011 11:17:52 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jerrymc) Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2011 11:17:52 -0500 From: Jerry McAllister To: Thomas Mueller Message-ID: <20111120161752.GB24745@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> References: <87zkfsca5a.fsf@pluton.xbsd.name> <20111120112536.45961106566B@hub.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20111120112536.45961106566B@hub.freebsd.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: "Denise H. G." , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: file system on 9.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2011 16:21:52 -0000 On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 11:25:35AM +0000, Thomas Mueller wrote: > from darcsis@gmail.com (Denise H. G.): > > > I strongly advise that /usr and /usr/local reside on different > > partitions. Furthermore, If you plan to run a desktop environment, your > > /usr/local should be big enough, say 8G - 10G, to hold all stuff you > > built from the ports. And putting /var on a separate partitiion is a > > good idea, I think. > > > I don't like to put /var on a separate partition because of the danger > of running short of space. I had nervous moments when running > freebsd-update on the older computer and seeing the used part of /var grow. For that very reason, I put /var on a separate partition. Stuff being written to /var is most likely to over run stuff and trash a / partition. ////jerry > > I don't really see a need to put /usr/local on a separate partition, though conceivably you could build applications with both FreeBSD ports and NetBSD pkgsrc, but keep these separate. NetBSD pkgsrc has been ported to other (quasi-)Unixes including FreeBSD. Default directory corresponding to FreeBSD's /usr/local is /usr/pkg . > > I think I like FreeBSD ports better than NetBSD pkgsrc, the latter which I used only with NetBSD. > > I originally installed FreeBSD 9.0-BETA1 using bsdinstall on the USB stick, including the ports. > > There was a conflict when I ran "portsnap fetch update", that didn't work. I had to run "portsnap fetch" and "portsnap extract", scrapping the ports tree from bsdinstall in favor of the fresh ports tree. So now I know best to not install ports tree from bsdinstall; this would presumably apply for sysinstall too. > > Tom > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"