From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 7 14:45:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA11620 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 7 May 1998 14:45:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from wpmail.gbr.epa.gov (wpmail.gbr.epa.gov [204.46.159.160]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA11593 for ; Thu, 7 May 1998 14:44:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jenkins.mike@epamail.epa.gov) Received: from gbdomain-Message_Server by wpmail.gbr.epa.gov with Novell_GroupWise; Thu, 07 May 1998 16:41:38 -0500 Message-Id: X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise 4.1 Date: Thu, 07 May 1998 16:40:41 -0500 From: MIKE JENKINS To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Writable /usr? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 7 May 1998 09:20:35 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: >Having many partitions is Evil. It increases the likelihood that you >will run out of space on one partition while having enough space on >the disk. If you really believed this, you'd have a / and swap partition only. It'd be just like the DOS/Win/NT folks with the C: drive. By default the install wants a /, swap, /var, and /usr. These are where the OS goes. Size these appropriately for the usage of your machine and then add a /home for the user files. This should work fine for most installs. More complex installers know what they are doing and will add partitions like /usr/src, /usr/local, /var/spool/news, multiple swaps/roots, etc. Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message