From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 7 22:52:38 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90E1F16A41C for ; Thu, 7 Jul 2005 22:52:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from xfb52@dial.pipex.com) Received: from smtp-out4.blueyonder.co.uk (smtp-out4.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.213.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1658C43D46 for ; Thu, 7 Jul 2005 22:52:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from xfb52@dial.pipex.com) Received: from [82.41.37.55] ([82.41.37.55]) by smtp-out4.blueyonder.co.uk with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Thu, 7 Jul 2005 23:53:19 +0100 Message-ID: <42CDB233.4050402@dial.pipex.com> Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 23:52:35 +0100 From: Alex Zbyslaw User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-GB; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050530 X-Accept-Language: en, en-us, pl MIME-Version: 1.0 To: RW References: <20050707111924.950B043D58@mx1.FreeBSD.org> <1e22f35905070707427dbd31f7@mail.gmail.com> <42CD660E.8090408@dial.pipex.com> <200507072055.59414.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> In-Reply-To: <200507072055.59414.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 07 Jul 2005 22:53:19.0342 (UTC) FILETIME=[AB3788E0:01C58346] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Did we must put the mounted partition '/' and '/boot' in the same slice ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 22:52:38 -0000 RW wrote: >On Thursday 07 July 2005 18:27, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: > > >>1Gb just because it's peanuts to a 200Gb disk, and I don't bother with >>/tmp separately. >> >> > >I use one because, by default, / is mounted without soft-updates. It is >possible to turn it on, but for the sake of a few hundred MB it seems >sensible to go with the default of a separate partition. > > If I ran a machine with users on it, I might agree :-) But there's just me and I set TMP and TMPDIR to /var/tmp which many programs used to pick up on when I first set them years ago. sort does, for e.g. and that was always a tmp killer in the kind of environments I worked in. Plus *I* know to use /var/tmp. Nowadays my /tmp has a small number of sockets and gubbins so I doubt softupdates would make any perceivable difference to me. Horses for courses, --Alex