Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 11:46:45 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: MIKE JENKINS <jenkins.mike@epamail.epa.gov>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Writable /usr? Message-ID: <19980508114645.C12200@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <s551e442.042@wpmail.gbr.epa.gov>; from MIKE JENKINS on Thu, May 07, 1998 at 04:40:41PM -0500 References: <s551e442.042@wpmail.gbr.epa.gov>
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On Thu, 7 May 1998 at 16:40:41 -0500, MIKE JENKINS wrote: > On Thu, 7 May 1998 09:20:35 +0930, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> 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. If you want me to read a reply, please copy me personally. I delete most messages without reading them, unless they are flagged as "personal". I do really believe this, of course, or I wouldn't have written it. Your statement begs the question why you think I wrote it. In fact, I use /, swap and /usr on my first disk. The reason for the split is because I have a writeable /usr partition. All other disks have only a single partition: Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/wd0s1a 30206 24322 3468 88% / /dev/wd0s1e 1152422 964780 95450 91% /usr /dev/sd0e 2047824 1762228 121771 94% /src /dev/sd1h 2047732 1715965 167949 91% /home /dev/sd2e 3866510 3434716 122474 97% /S procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc /dev/cd4a 530578 530578 0 100% /cdrom/5 /dev/cd5a 576386 576386 0 100% /cdrom/6 /dev/cd0a 600108 600108 0 100% /cdrom/1 /dev/wd2s1e 6051541 4808834 758584 86% /T I don't see how this makes the system like Microsoft. > By default the install wants a /, swap, /var, and /usr. These are where > the OS goes. Well, the OS goes on / and /usr. > 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. Well, it's my contention that more complex installers who know what they are doing will not add partitions gratuitously. I stand by the statement at the top: 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. About the only exception here is the split between the root file system, which could well be read only, and the rest of the first disk. As you can see, I put /usr on the rest (and link /var to /usr/var). One alternative might be to put /usr and all subdirectories which normally don't get written on the root file system, and make the others (such as /usr/share/man/cat*) links to somewhere else. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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