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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>

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On 17 February 2012, at 23:21, Robert Bonomi wrote:

>> =46rom 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?
>>=20
>>=20
>> 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=20
>>> with 4 partitions and swap, or the newer iteration with 1 partition =
and=20
>>> swap.
>>=20
>>=20
>> I only run servers and set them up with /, /usr, and swap.  Other =
partitions=20
>> are placed on other disks with typically one partition per disk.  I =
link /var
>> and /tmp into /usr.
>=20
> 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'=20
> 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.




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