From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 17 19:35:31 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA12151 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 19:35:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA12142 for ; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 19:35:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.7/8.8.5) id WAA00619; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 22:35:06 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" Message-Id: <199711180335.WAA00619@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: Partitioning suggestions? In-Reply-To: <199711180211.VAA18014@earth.mat.net> from "chuckr@glue.umd.edu" at "Nov 17, 97 09:11:18 pm" To: chuckr@glue.umd.edu Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 22:35:06 -0500 (EST) Cc: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk chuckr@glue.umd.edu said: > > 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. > I have a huge number of partitions (usually use three per disk at the 4-8GB.) The only major things that I see is wrong with one big partition are some security issues, and the inability to have a read-only root. I don't generally like partitions less than 500MB for work space. I'd actually like to look into a mini-root system, to virtually eliminate the need for a fixit floppy. That mini-root would not normally be mounted, but would be there when you need it. I sure wish that floppies were always 100MB :-). -- John dyson@freebsd.org jdyson@nc.com