Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 12:11:07 +0100 From: Damien Fleuriot <ml@my.gd> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: One or Four? Message-ID: <4F3F874B.6090200@my.gd> In-Reply-To: <CAJcQMWfnuyhsA7uEGfSOJxUzsOhH-uUYA%2BXNveH7Ntz-Dt3YMw@mail.gmail.com> References: <4F3ECF23.5000706@fisglobal.com> <CAJcQMWfnuyhsA7uEGfSOJxUzsOhH-uUYA%2BXNveH7Ntz-Dt3YMw@mail.gmail.com>
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On 2/17/12 11:40 PM, Maxim Khitrov wrote: > On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Robison, Dave > <david.robison@fisglobal.com> wrote: >> Hiya, >> >> A question has arisen with the implementation of bsdinstall in 9.x as >> opposed to sysinstall in 8.x and previous versions of FreeBSD. >> >> It has always been FreeBSD's default to create four partitions and swap as >> such: >> >> / >> /tmp >> /var >> /usr >> swap >> >> The recent changes in 9.x with bsdinstall use a default behavior which >> creates only one partition and swap, with everything living under a single >> "/" partition as such: >> >> / >> swap >> >> 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. >> >> This is not a discussion of MBR vs GPT. The default moving forward from 9.x >> will be to use GPT. >> >> We realize that one can use bsdinstall to create as many partitions as one >> wants. However, the new default is for one partition and swap. We want to >> know if people would prefer the older style default with four partitions and >> swap when selecting "Guided Partitioning" and "Use Entire Disk". >> >> Let the majority decide which layout is preferred for the default. > > / and /usr should be merged together, /var should stay separate, and > /tmp should be tmpfs :) > On topic, have the bugs been fixed where a tmpfs partition would gradually lose usable size, down to 0kb eventually ?
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