From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 28 06:34:15 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 B7E2216A4DA; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 06:34:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fullermd@over-yonder.net) Received: from mail.localelinks.com (web.localelinks.com [64.39.75.54]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6183443D4C; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 06:34:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from fullermd@over-yonder.net) Received: from draco.over-yonder.net (adsl-072-148-013-213.sip.jan.bellsouth.net [72.148.13.213]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.localelinks.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4ABA753; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 01:34:14 -0500 (CDT) Received: by draco.over-yonder.net (Postfix, from userid 100) id 8E42661C52; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 01:34:13 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 01:34:13 -0500 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" To: John Baldwin Message-ID: <20060728063413.GI69505@over-yonder.net> References: <20060727063936.GA1246@titan.klemm.apsfilter.org> <20060727202105.GA14724@titan.klemm.apsfilter.org> <17609.10507.322936.614793@bhuda.mired.org> <200607271734.24026.jhb@freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200607271734.24026.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Editor: vi X-OS: FreeBSD User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11-fullermd.3 Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, 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: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 06:34:15 -0000 On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 05:34:23PM -0400 I heard the voice of John Baldwin, and lo! it spake thus: > 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. I have / and /usr [sometimes one partition] mounted read-only on many of my systems. I like the peace of mind of KNOWING nothing'll go wonky on 'em on a crash, I like the shorter fsck times, I kinda like knowing there's that extra (very thin, but still extant) layer of protection against a lot of automated attacks... And, darnit, it just feels cleaner. I tend to have separate /var, /tmp, /home, and /usr/local which are kept rw since they have live and constantly-fiddled data on them, but everything else generally ends up ro since I only need to write them at specific discrete times. Out of the 11 partitions (multiple disks) on my workstation, only those 4 are generally rw. -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ On the Internet, nobody can hear you scream.