Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 01:21:17 -0600 (CST) From: Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: One or Four? Message-ID: <201202180721.q1I7LHxd071111@mail.r-bonomi.com> In-Reply-To: <A0622100-E7BB-44E1-A658-E9BC3A9D2EE9@lafn.org>
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> From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Fri Feb 17 19:56:00 2012 > From: Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> > Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:50:44 -0800 > To: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> > Subject: Re: One or Four? > > > On Feb 17, 2012, at 2:05 PM, Robison, Dave wrote: > > We'd like a show of hands to see if folks prefer the "old" style default > > with 4 partitions and swap, or the newer iteration with 1 partition and > > swap. > > > I only run servers and set them up with /, /usr, and swap. Other partitions > are placed on other disks with typically one partition per disk. I link /var > and /tmp into /usr. That last is a *BAD*IDEA*(tm). There _are_ programs that assume that /var/tmp and /usr/tme are *different* places -- and will attempt to create 'distinct' files _with_the_same_name_ in the two diretories.
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