From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 26 15:36:30 2005 Return-Path: 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 D2B1D16A4CE for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2005 15:36:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 707E143D2F for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2005 15:36:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) id j0QFaMb03310; Wed, 26 Jan 2005 10:36:22 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200501261536.j0QFaMb03310@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: johnfhoover@gmail.com Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 10:36:21 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <5730154705012606413de7d06d@mail.gmail.com> from "John Hoover" at Jan 26, 2005 08:41:20 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Peterhin cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Partition Size X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 15:36:30 -0000 > > I'm sure that many will disagree, but if you don't want to worry about > the partition > sizes, don't. Just have two partitions, / and swap. Sure, that works. It is an especially viable way of doing it for small systems that won't be handling lots of file growth. But, there are reasons, especially on bigger systems for dividing things up. It makes dealing with some types of problems easier and heads off problems when some types of files grow unexpectedly. It can also help make backups easier to manage. > > I may have started a flame war, but for my small installs, it works just fine. No need for a flame war. There are reasons for doing it each way depending on your situation and needs. ////jerry > > John. > > ------------------------------------- > John F Hoover > johnfhoover@gmail.com > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >