From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 19 04:45:55 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2292106566C for ; Sun, 19 Feb 2012 04:45:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from carlj@peak.org) Received: from redcondor1.peak.org (redcondor1.peak.org [69.59.192.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 572948FC08 for ; Sun, 19 Feb 2012 04:45:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from zmail-mta01.peak.org ([207.55.16.111]) by redcondor1.peak.org ({e03e86cd-14ae-47ce-9578-3c080ce9c462}) via TCP (outbound) with ESMTP id 20120219044554131 for ; Sun, 19 Feb 2012 04:45:54 +0000 X-RC-FROM: X-RC-RCPT: Received: from birch.localnet (unknown [207.55.106.132]) by zmail-mta01.peak.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 68D15460785 for ; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 20:45:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from oak.localnet (oak.localnet [192.168.193.34]) by birch.localnet (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD67655B5D for ; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 20:45:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from oak.localnet (localhost.localnet [127.0.0.1]) by oak.localnet (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DCB7C8F3 for ; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 20:45:51 -0800 (PST) Received: (from carlj@localhost) by oak.localnet (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id q1J4jpJe054736; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 20:45:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from carlj@peak.org) X-Authentication-Warning: oak.localnet: carlj set sender to carlj@peak.org using -f From: Carl Johnson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 20:40:22 -0800 References: <4F3ECF23.5000706@fisglobal.com> <4F3F8672.3090805@my.gd> <20120218213417.GB33662@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <201202190803.39548.erich@alogreentechnologies.com> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <87wr7j1lds.fsf@oak.localnet> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Re: One or Four? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 04:45:55 -0000 Erich Dollansky writes: > Hi, > > On Sunday 19 February 2012 04:34:17 Jerry McAllister wrote: >> On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 12:07:30PM +0100, Damien Fleuriot wrote: >> >> > >> >> So, Polytropon's three choice pattern is good. Or, I could even >> suggest just two choices. >> > yes, three options is ok. > >> [ ] all in one + swap >> Create one partition containing all subtrees >> plus one swap partition. >> >> [ ] user-defined >> Make your own partitioning selection manually. >> (Both number and size of partitions) >> with a reasonable way to specify partitions and sizes. >> The old Sysinstall way is not bad, but if it obsolete, >> then something as easy that fits the new GPT based system. >> > A normal user will use the first option here and get screwed when the > file system got affected by a power failure. The second option is not > an option for a general user. What will happen in the case of a power failure? I just see an fsck when that happens, and I have been running unix and linux for about 20 years. I have always had multiple partitions in the past, but for 9.0 I went with the single partition. -- Carl Johnson carlj@peak.org