From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 1 2: 3:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.demon.net (finch-post-11.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DB81153A1 for ; Mon, 1 Mar 1999 02:03:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from [158.152.75.22] (helo=uk.radan.com) by post.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 10HPXZ-0005oR-00; Mon, 1 Mar 1999 10:03:11 +0000 Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from beavis.uk.radan.com (beavis [193.114.228.122]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with SMTP id KAA01573; Mon, 1 Mar 1999 10:02:23 GMT Received: from uk.radan.com (gppsun4) by beavis.uk.radan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA02120; Mon, 1 Mar 99 09:01:26 GMT Message-Id: <36DA575C.FECD32CE@uk.radan.com> Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 09:01:16 +0000 From: Mark Ovens Organization: Radan Computational Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en-GB Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Lehey Cc: Ben Smithurst , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Swap Space References: <19990228181847.A20725@scientia.demon.co.uk> <36D9AD0E.9F17CDA@3-cities.com> <19990301084831.M7279@lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greg Lehey wrote: > > On Sunday, 28 February 1999 at 12:54:38 -0800, Kent Stewart wrote: > > Ben Smithurst wrote: > >> > >> On my machine "/" is a separate filesystem, but if you've got so > >> little space it probably won't hurt to stick them all on one > >> filesystem. > >> > >> Perhaps someone can tell me why my method is a bad idea, if it is. > > > Ben is right: on such a tiny disk, you shouldn't have more than one > file system. > Would a single filesystem not cause problems if the system went down ungracefully, e.g. a sudden power cut?. I'm thinking of the situation when the system comes up single user because it can't mount a corrupted /usr and/or /var, requiring you to fsck them manually. In this case would it still be able to mount / read-only, even though it was on the same filesystem as /usr? > > Greg > -- -- FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~markov _______________________________________________________________ Mark Ovens, CNC Apps Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. Bath UK CAD/CAM solutions for Sheetmetal Working Industry mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message