Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 23:54:36 -0800 From: Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> To: Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: One or Four? Message-ID: <F4B12A29-AB3B-42E3-8A8E-8918428B9478@lafn.org> In-Reply-To: <201202180721.q1I7LHxd071111@mail.r-bonomi.com> References: <201202180721.q1I7LHxd071111@mail.r-bonomi.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On 17 February 2012, at 23:21, Robert Bonomi wrote: >> 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. I am sure you can find programs that presume anything you want. I have never seen one that does that. If I did find one, it would be easy to correct that misguided thinking.
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?F4B12A29-AB3B-42E3-8A8E-8918428B9478>