From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 19 03:55:15 2012 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 4ABD9106566C for ; Sun, 19 Feb 2012 03:55:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erich@alogreentechnologies.com) Received: from alogreentechnologies.com (alogreentechnologies.com [67.212.226.44]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 246DD8FC0A for ; Sun, 19 Feb 2012 03:55:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from amd620.ovitrap.com ([49.128.188.2]) (authenticated bits=0) by alogreentechnologies.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id q1J3t8ZF031731; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 20:55:13 -0700 From: Erich Dollansky Organization: ALO Green Technologies Pte Ltd To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 10:55:01 +0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (FreeBSD/8.2-STABLE; KDE/4.7.4; amd64; ; ) References: <4F3ECF23.5000706@fisglobal.com> <201202190803.39548.erich@alogreentechnologies.com> <20120219023055.GA34544@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20120219023055.GA34544@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201202191055.02035.erich@alogreentechnologies.com> X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 04:00:28 +0000 Cc: Jerry McAllister Subject: Re: One or Four? 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, 19 Feb 2012 03:55:15 -0000 Hi, On Sunday 19 February 2012 09:30:55 Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 08:03:39AM +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > On Sunday 19 February 2012 04:34:17 Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 12:07:30PM +0100, Damien Fleuriot wrote: > > > > > > So, Polytropon's three choice pattern is good. Or, I could even > > > suggest just two choices. > > > > > yes, three options is ok. > > > > > [ ] all in one + swap > > > Create one partition containing all subtrees > > > plus one swap partition. > > > > > > [ ] user-defined > > > Make your own partitioning selection manually. > > > (Both number and size of partitions) > > > with a reasonable way to specify partitions and sizes. > > > The old Sysinstall way is not bad, but if it obsolete, > > > then something as easy that fits the new GPT based system. > > > > > A normal user will use the first option here and get screwed when the file system got affected by a power failure. The second option is not an option for a general user. > > > > > But, that middle choice that Polytropon suggested is OK to include > > > if you think it is needed. /, /tmp, /usr, /var, [/home] +swap > > > > Yes, I strong urge you to leave this at least as an option. > > Just with a larger / slice of 1 or better 2GB. > > > > > > I don't see that this plan adds any significant complication or confusion. > > > Nor does it prevent any of the schemes people have been advocating or > > > requesting. > > > > You seem to forget normal users who just want to use the system. > > They do not think of recovery until it actually happens. > > We forgot nothing. They can just select option 1 and then later > when something happens so learn otherwise, if they ever do, they > will have option 3 to more specifically build their system according > to their newly perceived needs. where do they get the knowledge from? Erich