From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 5 8: 0:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E173015033 for ; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 08:00:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #3) id 125srW-0009lL-00; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 16:00:38 +0000 Received: from localhost (jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA59396; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 16:00:38 GMT (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 16:00:38 +0000 (GMT) From: Jonathon McKitrick To: Alwyn Schoeman Cc: Sheldon Hearn , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: window manager question In-Reply-To: <20000105171748.A44606@littlecruncher.prizm.dhs.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Alwyn Schoeman wrote: >What do you mean when you say reducing writes to /? Why? Traditionally, from what i know, the / partition is ttreated as sacred, and should be protected in the event of a crash. If some app is writing to / and the OS crashes, your root partition may become corrupted. So, by putting everything that gets written to in /usr (which should be a separate partition or even a different HD) then writes to the oh-so-important / partition are minimized. In the event of a major crash, the root directory should still be operational, allowing the system to start and begin recovery procedures. -=> jm <=- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message