From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 2 12:13:09 2010 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 F0E41106566C for ; Fri, 2 Jul 2010 12:13:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bruce@cran.org.uk) Received: from muon.cran.org.uk (muon.cran.org.uk [204.109.60.94]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2B1C8FC1B for ; Fri, 2 Jul 2010 12:13:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from unknown (client-86-31-67-88.midd.adsl.virginmedia.com [86.31.67.88]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by muon.cran.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id AC26E613C; Fri, 2 Jul 2010 12:13:20 +0000 (UTC) Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 13:13:15 +0100 From: Bruce Cran To: Matthew Seaman Message-ID: <20100702131315.00007c89@unknown> In-Reply-To: <4C2D9659.3060208@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <20100701212112.GA28138@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <4C2D9659.3060208@infracaninophile.co.uk> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.4cvs1 (GTK+ 2.16.0; i586-pc-mingw32msvc) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Ed Flecko , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /boot is full after running "make installkernel" on FreeBSD 8.0 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: Fri, 02 Jul 2010 12:13:10 -0000 On Fri, 02 Jul 2010 08:33:45 +0100 Matthew Seaman wrote: > Is it time for me to start advocating "one big partition" again? > > This may not be the consensus view, but I have found that for a quiet > life and general lack of botheration it helps to create *only two* > partitions on your hard drive: > > b: Swap -- usually 2x RAM > a: Everything else This is perfect bikeshed material: people believe FreeBSD's partitioning scheme is superior to (for example) Linux, and that by dumping everything in a single partition we'd be dumbing it down. I still create separate partitions through paranoia, to avoid corrupting the entire disk if for example /usr/obj is being written to when the power goes out. I don't know if that would happen but I've had too many problem over the years with various filesystems that I don't trust it. With ZFS I've gone even further and created separate filesystems for /usr/src, /usr/ports etc. The output of 'mount' looks somewhat like a Solaris machine now :) I have a task on my TODO list to increase the sizes of the partitions in sysinstall: for example / goes to 1GB, /var to 4GB. I hope to commit the code in the next couple of weeks. -- Bruce Cran