From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 2 12:17:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from aragorn.neomedia.it (aragorn.neomedia.it [195.103.207.6]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8142C3E1C for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2000 12:17:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from bartequi.ottodomain.org (ppp33-pa4.neomedia.it [195.103.207.225]) by aragorn.neomedia.it (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id VAA19404; Wed, 2 Feb 2000 21:17:11 +0100 (CET) From: Salvo Bartolotta Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2000 20:19:24 GMT Message-ID: <20000202.20192400@bartequi.ottodomain.org> Subject: RE: Why to use seperate partitions To: Technical Information Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20000202095655.B26831@fw.wintelcom.net> <4.2.2.20000202142914.06520bd0@mail.threespace.com> X-Mailer: Supercalifragilis X-Priority: 3 (Normal) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< On 2/2/00, 8:36:09 PM, Technical Information=20 wrote regarding RE: Why to use seperate partitions: > This is all very understandable from the SysAdmin's point of view. But are > there any comparable advantages for Joe Unix who is using his machine solo > or with a few moderate users? And can't quotas be used to stop any rampant > growth in particular areas? > I'm not doing backups or anything like that on my personal system, and= I > never can predict which areas (e.g., var or tmp or usr) are going to grow > the fastest. So I've also typically just installed everything into one > large root [/] directory. For somebody without any experience or even= a > good idea of how a system may be used, directory subpartitioning seems= like > a hit-or-miss proposition at best. > Heck, I wouldn't even know how much room to allocate to the theoretically > immutable root directory.... > K.-- Dear Mr "Technical information", just my 0.02 Euro to the pot. I have created two FreeBSD installations on my home 'puter: a "serious" one and an "experimental" one. Each of them has its separate slice(s) on separate disks; I used FreeBSD partitions "by the book" (ie /, swap, /var and /usr for each installation). Personally, I can only see advantages in doing this: 1) learning the rational flexible FreeBSD slice and partitions scheme; 2) improved recovery possibilities in case of (file)system crashes; 3) an orderly and neat system. BTW, you seem to be in direct contradiction ... with yourself [Mr Technical Information (!)] :-)) N.B. my_fake_antispam_domain =3D=3D=3D> neomedia.it to e-mail to me. Best regards, Salvo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message