Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 13:15:09 +0100 From: Erik Norgaard <norgaard@locolomo.org> To: jesse@wingnet.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /boot like linux! Message-ID: <4228514D.8090007@locolomo.org> In-Reply-To: <d0853q$kkq$1@sea.gmane.org> References: <d0853q$kkq$1@sea.gmane.org>
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Jesse Guardiani wrote: > In particular, it seems that /boot MUST be on the same > partition as /. This stinks, as now you have to create > separate partitions for /usr and /var, which wastes space. You are not required to create separate partitions, but there are good reasons to do so, namely to avoid that inconsistencies affect vital partitions. / is vital, with a separate /boot, you may be able to boot but you don't get anywhere - the fsck is on /. There is not reason to keep /boot separate from /, but there are good reasons to keep /usr, /var, /home and /tmp separate. You don't need to create swap, given you have enough RAM. All this applies to FreeBSD and Linux. I learned to keep /tmp separate the hard way, but that was back in the times of ext2 on linux. Cheers, Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web: http://www.locolomo.org S/MIME Certificate: http://www.locolomo.org/crt/2004071206.crt Subject ID: A9:76:7A:ED:06:95:2B:8D:48:97:CE:F2:3F:42:C8:F2:22:DE:4C:B9 Fingerprint: 4A:E8:63:38:46:F6:9A:5D:B4:DC:29:41:3F:62:D3:0A:73:25:67:C2
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