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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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