From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 8 01:42:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA15741 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 8 May 1998 01:42:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from federation.addy.com (federation.addy.com [207.239.68.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA15735 for ; Fri, 8 May 1998 01:42:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fbsdlist@federation.addy.com) Received: from localhost (fbsdlist@localhost) by federation.addy.com (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id EAA05990 for ; Fri, 8 May 1998 04:42:05 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 04:42:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Cliff Addy To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Writable /usr? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 7 May 1998 09:20:35 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: >Having many partitions is Evil. It increases the likelihood that you >will run out of space on one partition while having enough space on >the disk. This is a really simple-minded view of the world brought on by a DOS-only background. In actuality, multiple partitions, as implemented in fbsd, is great. This means that when my /var partition gets too full, I can replace it with another hard drive mounted where the /var partition of the main drive used to be. Pop in the new drive, copy old stuff over, edit fstab and I'm done. Of course, DOS machines can't even dream of such a thing. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message