From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 18 11:11:10 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D6A01065673 for ; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 11:11:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@my.gd) Received: from mail-we0-f182.google.com (mail-we0-f182.google.com [74.125.82.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C1DE8FC12 for ; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 11:11:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: by werm13 with SMTP id m13so3684956wer.13 for ; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 03:11:09 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of ml@my.gd designates 10.180.92.73 as permitted sender) client-ip=10.180.92.73; Authentication-Results: mr.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of ml@my.gd designates 10.180.92.73 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=ml@my.gd Received: from mr.google.com ([10.180.92.73]) by 10.180.92.73 with SMTP id ck9mr3205036wib.2.1329563469050 (num_hops = 1); Sat, 18 Feb 2012 03:11:09 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.180.92.73 with SMTP id ck9mr2695046wib.2.1329563468996; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 03:11:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from dfleuriot.local (did75-17-88-165-130-96.fbx.proxad.net. [88.165.130.96]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id eq5sm7630148wib.2.2012.02.18.03.11.08 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 18 Feb 2012 03:11:08 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4F3F874B.6090200@my.gd> Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 12:11:07 +0100 From: Damien Fleuriot User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:10.0.1) Gecko/20120208 Thunderbird/10.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4F3ECF23.5000706@fisglobal.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQnrJAsWGcqMwCibQzaTRsJ0hW6fJemA6d53Gv9gUUnjPB02V7Xs1kTfRbsDTjtfOabAi/MY Subject: Re: One or Four? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 11:11:10 -0000 On 2/17/12 11:40 PM, Maxim Khitrov wrote: > On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Robison, Dave > 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 ?