Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 11:34:57 -0400 From: Jonathan Vomacka <juvix88@gmail.com> To: f92902@hushmail.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 8.2 Partition Sizing question Message-ID: <4E721B21.1000303@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20110915091911.60BAD10E2D6@smtp.hushmail.com> References: <20110915091911.60BAD10E2D6@smtp.hushmail.com>
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Thanks bud. On 9/15/2011 5:19 AM, f92902@hushmail.com wrote: >> There is nothing wrong with having / and /usr on separate > partitions; in fact, there are some mild advantages to fine-grained > partitioning for folks who pay attention to their filesystem space > usage. > > To elaborate on this: > > Assuming you have separate /var, /tmp, /usr and /home partitions, > the only files that should be on / are: > > 1. Part of base system not in /usr > 2. Kernels (/boot/kernel) > 3. root home directory (/root) > > Therefore the size of / does not grow with time on most systems. It > also tends to be independent of what the system is used for, unlike > the size of /usr for example. > > On my systems / is between 1.5 gb to 2 gb depending on overall disk > size. /usr is up to 10 gb on desktop systems. > > A benefit of having / on its own partition is that it becomes much > harder to run / out of disk space by accident. Checking out source > trees (/usr/ports, /usr/src), building world (/usr/obj), building > ports (/usr/ports), running software that uses > /usr/local/<programname>/logs for storing its log files, etc. all > have potential to write to /usr if you don't have appropriate > configuration/symlinks/partitions set up to redirect them to the > right places. If your /usr is separate from / then running out of > disk space on /usr is usually harmless. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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