From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 5 15:57:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from Mail6.nc.rr.com (fe6.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEF7337B402 for ; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 15:57:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from i8k.babbleon.org ([66.57.85.154]) by Mail6.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Tue, 5 Mar 2002 00:15:02 -0500 Received: by i8k.babbleon.org (Postfix, from userid 111) id 83215BA03; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 00:14:59 -0500 (EST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Brian T.Schellenberger To: "Patrick Fish" , Subject: Re: filesystems Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 00:14:59 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: <001a01c1c402$4be71a60$0300a8c0@zeus> In-Reply-To: <001a01c1c402$4be71a60$0300a8c0@zeus> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20020305051459.83215BA03@i8k.babbleon.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday 04 March 2002 11:57 pm, Patrick Fish wrote: > My disk layout looks like this: > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/ad0s1a 18G 2.7G 14G 16% / > procfs 4.0K 4.0K 0B 100% /proc > > > ........ > Would it be a good idea to break the major dirs into seperate partitions? I prefer it that way, but it's simpler in many ways to just have one--you never wind up shuffling bits of your system around when the ratio between partition sizes turns out to be wrong. The big drawback is that if your f/s ever gets trashed, *everything* is gone, including the partition that you might have wanted to stick around to facilitate recovery. Another drawback is that if a process goes insane and consume infinite /tmp space it gets to eat the entire HD before it stops. For these reasons I partition /var, /tmp, and /home to their own space, as well as a /ext parition for "big junk" that I want to back up and /more for "big junk" that I don't. OTOH, I don't separate out /usr, and almost eveerybody else does. It seems just as "system"ish as / to me. YMMV. > If so, could i do this with fdisk WITHOUT reformatting? - No. Which is why I'd just leave well enough alone & keep good backups until I had some other reason to re-install, unless your system is brand-new and you haven't customized much of anything. > Patrick Fish - patrick at pwhsnet dot com > PWHS Networks - http://www.pwhsnet.com > > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.325 / Virus Database: 182 - Release Date: 2/19/2002 -- Brian T. Schellenberger . . . . . . . bts@wnt.sas.com (work) Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) ME --> http://www.babbleon.org http://www.eff.org <-- GOOD GUYS --> http://www.programming-freedom.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message