Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 09:36:28 -0500 From: "SILVER, MICHAEL A" <MSILVER@scana.com> To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: newbie question from "Complete FreeBSD book" Message-ID: <DBB3921EFE2AD211A81500A0C9B5FE7607175E93@msg04.scana.com>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Greg Lehey > > > I don't speak for Greg, but I think he suggests creating a single > > partition. I know there are arguments back and forth, but I think > > the old argument is root gets very little write access, and > > therefore should be seperate from /var, /etc, etc. Perhaps to > > prevent the root from crashing with another parition. > > No, in this edition I suggest two partitions, / and /usr. In the next > edition I'll suggest a single partition of up to 4 GB, and additional > partitions if the available disk space is larger. > This isn't what I recommend in the Third Edition, > but it's a lot simpler. MICHAEL, by chance you have stumbled on the > recommendation that will be in the next edition. You don't need to > worry about /var and /tmp in this scenario. My bad. I must have seen this in the last thread. I haven't had to use your book for several months now, so I am a bit rusty. :-) ...Michael... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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