From owner-freebsd-current Thu Oct 7 15:22:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 009DB14CF7 for ; Thu, 7 Oct 1999 15:22:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (root@d60-025.leach.ucdavis.edu [169.237.60.25]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA98181; Thu, 7 Oct 1999 15:21:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id PAA91680; Thu, 7 Oct 1999 15:21:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 15:21:32 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Brad Knowles Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make install trick Message-ID: <19991007152132.F68920@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre1i In-Reply-To: X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > It was my understanding that it was standard recommended practice > practice pretty much across the board to create the following > separate filesystems: > > / > /tmp (perhaps an mfs, perhaps softupdates, or whatever) > /usr > /var > /var/tmp > /home (or wherever you're going to store user directories) > And that most people also then created a separate filesystem for > /usr/local or /opt, or wherever they're going to store the additional You are entering religion. I despise, HIGHLY DESPISE, all the partitions. I don't care for the fragmentation and PITA when upgrading it leads to. HP and SGI workstations have a single huge /. Why do you need /usr seperate from / when you aren't diskless (or /usr'less)? Look at the historic reasons for this division and see if it still makes sense to you today. (and before someone misreads this, yes, my /home is a seperate partition and my /tmp is MFS) -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message