From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 22 1:43:20 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 22 01:43:18 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from harp.wrdp.com (harp.dublin.wrdp.net [212.147.130.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8643E37B400 for ; Fri, 22 Dec 2000 01:43:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from JRAFTERY (jraftery.dublin.wrdp.net [172.16.4.52]) by harp.wrdp.com (Postfix) with SMTP id AA52410AC4; Fri, 22 Dec 2000 09:43:07 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <017301c06bfb$ae7747f0$340410ac@JRAFTERY> From: "James Raftery" To: "Peter Brock" , "FreeBSD-Questions" References: <007d01c06bc8$1da110e0$0600a8c0@Home> Subject: Re: Root Partitions Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 09:43:47 -0000 Organization: Worldport Communications Inc MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Brock" To: "FreeBSD-Questions" 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