From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 27 21:39:58 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A09216A4DF; Thu, 27 Jul 2006 21:39:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from server.baldwin.cx (66-23-211-162.clients.speedfactory.net [66.23.211.162]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48C3443D72; Thu, 27 Jul 2006 21:39:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from localhost.corp.yahoo.com (john@localhost [127.0.0.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by server.baldwin.cx (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k6RLdqXv080692; Thu, 27 Jul 2006 17:39:53 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) From: John Baldwin To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 17:34:23 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <20060727063936.GA1246@titan.klemm.apsfilter.org> <20060727202105.GA14724@titan.klemm.apsfilter.org> <17609.10507.322936.614793@bhuda.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <17609.10507.322936.614793@bhuda.mired.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200607271734.24026.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH authentication, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (server.baldwin.cx [127.0.0.1]); Thu, 27 Jul 2006 17:39:53 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.87.1/1624/Thu Jul 27 13:11:25 2006 on server.baldwin.cx X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=4.2 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0 (2005-09-13) on server.baldwin.cx Cc: Mike Meyer Subject: Re: disklabel differences FreeBSD, DragonFly X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 21:39:58 -0000 On Thursday 27 July 2006 16:58, Mike Meyer wrote: > Right. I typically install / and /usr as distinct files systems for > just that reason (/ and /usr have different backup & recovery > strategies and I use dump, so that's why they are two partitions). So > why does / need to be different from /var, /usr different from > /usr/X11R6 and /home different from /usr/local? Seriously now - what I > just described is my typical install. In my case I still have /home in /usr/home, but I should start making it separate in the hope that I could mount /usr read-only most of the time reducing the time it takes to fsck when I crash my test machines. This is peculiar to an environ where one expects to crash a lot though. :) Even so, I would be looking at /, /usr, /var, /tmp, /home, and swap. Still under 7 ('c' is reserved). -- John Baldwin