From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 6 6: 2:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx.cti.gr (kronos.cti.gr [150.140.1.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1C64C14CC9 for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 06:02:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keramida@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (qmail 22528 invoked from network); 6 Jan 2000 14:02:38 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.hell.gr) (150.140.30.34) by kronos.cti.gr with SMTP; 6 Jan 2000 14:02:38 -0000 Received: (qmail 4090 invoked by uid 1001); 6 Jan 2000 01:46:48 -0000 Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 03:46:48 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Jonathon McKitrick Cc: Alwyn Schoeman , Sheldon Hearn , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: window manager question Message-ID: <20000106034648.A3659@hades.hell.gr> Reply-To: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr References: <20000105171748.A44606@littlecruncher.prizm.dhs.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre3i In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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