Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 21:11:18 -0500 (EST) From: chuckr@glue.umd.edu To: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Partitioning suggestions? Message-ID: <199711180211.VAA18014@earth.mat.net> In-Reply-To: <19971118014332.38551@keltia.freenix.fr>
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On 18 Nov, Ollivier Robert wrote: > According to Alfred Perlstein: >> i wasn't going to get into this thread, however i feel that a 32meg root >> is NOT a good idea, 50megs is nice, but with 32megs i've come across >> problems of filling the root partition. > > With what ? The smallest "/" is, the better. Of course, none of "/var", > "/tmp" and "/compat" are in it... And I have at least three kernels in "/", > sorry 4. > > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1048619 Nov 15 20:07 /kernel* > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1046412 Oct 24 22:11 /kernel.null* > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1043718 Nov 8 23:41 /kernel.old* > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1137770 Nov 15 20:07 /kernel.snd* > > > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/sd0a 25247 17118 6110 74% / > /dev/sd0s2e 199631 86891 96770 47% /usr > /dev/sd0s2f 501231 293469 167664 64% /usr/local > /dev/sd2s4a 99791 51033 40775 56% /var > /dev/sd0s2g 399287 159068 208277 43% /users > /dev/sd2s4e 144343 90137 42659 68% /news > /dev/sd0s2h 698831 457930 184995 71% /src > /dev/sd2s4d 705343 406069 242847 63% /spare > /dev/sd0s2d 851149 593299 189759 76% /work > /dev/sd12a 1033212 596966 353590 63% /x > /dev/sd2s4f 988393 130248 779074 14% /y Absolutely no sarcasm here, I'm honestly curious why you'd want to have so many filesystems. I would think that (unless you were a major invoestor in a drive manufacturer) you'd be exaggerating the chance of having one be overloaded, and then need to either reformat or swap out to another, bigger disk, much more often than I. A friend who programs a lot shocked me by saying that she regularly installs just one big partition, for /,/usr/ the whole works. I'd never done that myself, but I've been trying to come up with some solid reason why it's a bad idea. > > -- > Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr > FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-CURRENT #49: Sat Nov 15 20:03:33 CET 1997 > -- ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 3.0 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------
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