From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 17 18:02:32 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA05095 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 18:02:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from ha1.rdc1.nj.home.com (siteadm@ha1.rdc1.nj.home.com [24.3.128.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA05087 for ; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 18:02:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from luomat@luomat.peak.org) Received: from luomat.peak.org ([24.2.83.40]) by ha1.rdc1.nj.home.com (Netscape Mail Server v2.02) with ESMTP id AAA18088 for ; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 18:02:26 -0800 Received: (from luomat@localhost) by luomat.peak.org (8.8.5/8.8.7) id VAA04479 for hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 21:02:31 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199711180202.VAA04479@luomat.peak.org> Content-Type: text/plain MIME-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 4.1mach v148) X-Image-URL: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/luomat@peak.org.tiff In-Reply-To: <199711180019.TAA01983@dyson.iquest.net> X-Nextstep-Mailer: Mail 4.1mach (Enhance 2.0b6.5) Received: by NeXT.Mailer (1.148.RR) From: Timothy J Luoma Date: Mon, 17 Nov 97 21:02:27 -0500 To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: NBQ: Why partitioning? (was: Re: Partitioning suggestions?) References: <199711180019.TAA01983@dyson.iquest.net> X-Image-URL-Disclaimer: hey, it's off my student ID, gimme a break ;-) Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As someone who has only booted FBSD twice (before it failed... not surprising since I am not sure what I am doing) I've been trying to learn by lurking,,,, and I'm still not understanding why FBSD and some other UN*X'es put /var /usr /tmp &etc on different partitions. To me it seems like it is just asking for wasted space here and running out of space there. What am I missing? Thanks TjL