Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 03:46:48 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <charon@hades.hell.gr> To: Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Cc: Alwyn Schoeman <alwyns@littlecruncher.prizm.dhs.org>, Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: window manager question Message-ID: <20000106034648.A3659@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001051545430.58669-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <20000105171748.A44606@littlecruncher.prizm.dhs.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001051545430.58669-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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On Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 04:00:38PM +0000, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > 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 treated 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. If you keep your /var, /usr and /tmp directories on other partitions, making sure that nobody writes to your / filesystem is essentially the first step towards mounting / as read-only. The `noatime' option in /etc/fstab is the next Good Thing(TM) usually. This makes sure that whatever happens, at least your / filesystem will not have to go through that dreaded fsck thing during system boot. -- Giorgos Keramidas, < keramida @ ceid . upatras . gr > "What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing." [Aristotle] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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