Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 09:43:47 -0000 From: "James Raftery" <jraftery@wrdp.com> To: "Peter Brock" <peer@interquad.net>, "FreeBSD-Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Root Partitions Message-ID: <017301c06bfb$ae7747f0$340410ac@JRAFTERY> References: <007d01c06bc8$1da110e0$0600a8c0@Home>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Brock" <peer@interquad.net> To: "FreeBSD-Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Friday, December 22, 2000 3:34 AM Subject: Root Partitions > Alright i wanna spark a debate.. Can someone tell me why it is recomended to > devided your hd into seperate slices for / /usr and /var? Why not put > everything on a single partition and be done with it? I have a few setups > with just a root partition and everything is working great. For the average home user I would suggest using a single slice for / and be done with it. It's less hassle, more flexible and not likely to cause any problems. But for a busy/important machine compartmentalising limits the scope of any filesystem issues to bring down to whole machine, for the reasons given by the others in this thread. Regards, james To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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