From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 15 17:07:15 2004 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 7551B16A4CE for ; Sat, 15 May 2004 17:07:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msr58.hinet.net (msr58.hinet.net [168.95.4.158]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 638DB43D46 for ; Sat, 15 May 2004 17:07:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net) Received: from sonic.utopia.com (61-227-219-58.dynamic.hinet.net [61.227.219.58]) by msr58.hinet.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id IAA23258 for ; Sun, 16 May 2004 08:07:07 +0800 (CST) Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 08:03:12 +0800 From: Robert Storey To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20040516080312.77034638.y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net> In-Reply-To: <40A60DA0.6040803@web.de> References: <40A60DA0.6040803@web.de> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: FreeBSD installation on a single partition X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 00:07:15 -0000 Unless you're really short of hard disk space, I'd say that this is a bad i= dea. Multiple partitions give added stability and security. The sole disadvantage of using multiple partitions is that you might not allocate enough space on one particular partition and so it could fill up - therefore, you have to put some careful thought into how large each partiti= on should be.=20 Advantage No. 1 of multiple partitions - stability. Some directories are frequently being written to, especially /tmp and /var, and probably /home (especially if you manage to create a swap file there). If there is a system crash or power failure while information is being written, you could lose everything. All your critical data probably resides in /home, so you should= keep it in a separate partition so that you can recover it even if everything el= se goes to hell. Ideally, you want the / partition to be read-only. Advantage No. 2 - security. A number of denial of service attacks and other hacks are aimed at /tmp and /var, and you can accidentally cause a self-inflicted denial of service attack if you fill up /home. Having separa= te partitions prevents this. At the very least, keep swap in its own partition. Ideally, have separate partitions for /, /usr, /tmp, /var and /home. regards, Robert On Sat, 15 May 2004 14:31:28 +0200 G=FCnther Schmidt wrote: > Hi, >=20 > I'd like to install FreeBSD on a single partition, how can I do that?=20 > The sys/installer complains about a missing swap partition, (I'd rather=20 > use swap files though). >=20 > Thanks G=FCnther > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg"