From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 10 18:04:21 2009 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 1EE4D106566B for ; Sat, 10 Oct 2009 18:04:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from mx01.qsc.de (mx01.qsc.de [213.148.129.14]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1AC28FC12 for ; Sat, 10 Oct 2009 18:04:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from r55.edvax.de (port-92-195-71-245.dynamic.qsc.de [92.195.71.245]) by mx01.qsc.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCB9F3C88B; Sat, 10 Oct 2009 20:04:18 +0200 (CEST) Received: from r55.edvax.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by r55.edvax.de (8.14.2/8.14.2) with SMTP id n9AI4Ig5002557; Sat, 10 Oct 2009 20:04:18 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 20:04:18 +0200 From: Polytropon To: Chad Perrin Message-Id: <20091010200418.8e880250.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20091010173608.GC4669@guilt.hydra> References: <200910071110.n97BANiE012861@lurza.secnetix.de> <4acd9c98.Mf06e1KlRm+blPrD%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <20091010173608.GC4669@guilt.hydra> Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.7 (GTK+ 2.12.1; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: / almost out of space just after installation X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Polytropon List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 18:04:21 -0000 On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 11:36:08 -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: > Someone mentioned giving the `home` directory its own partition. I think > a separate partition for /usr/home, mounted within /usr, is a great idea. > It would help substantially with system rebuilds, backups, and using > separate drives for `home`, because that's where the majority of the > stuff you want to keep between installs will reside. Basically > everything else within /usr (with the possible exception of > /usr/local/etc) is just what happens when you install and configure your > system in the first place. If you can estimate disk requirements good enough, or simply have huge hard disks that can compensate any requirements, there's no problem giving /home a separate partition. There's no need to put the mountpoint into /usr, because /home could "physically" exist; in the "home in usr" setting, /home is just a symlink to /usr/home. Personally, I often put /home on a separate partition, simply because of comfortability. If I can't say enough about how /usr and /home will grow, I go with the default approach. I sometimes even use the "one big /" setting. One advantage of /home as a separate partition is that you can easily use dump to create a backup - you simply backup the whole partition. You could have a directory, let's say /home/settings, where you keep duplicates of /etc, /usr/local/etc and other files that contain settings you consider worth being backed up. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...