From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 15 15:37:14 2011 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 E3C101065673 for ; Thu, 15 Sep 2011 15:37:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from juvix88@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qy0-f175.google.com (mail-qy0-f175.google.com [209.85.216.175]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E8D18FC16 for ; Thu, 15 Sep 2011 15:37:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-qy0-f175.google.com with SMTP id 10so5475859qyk.13 for ; Thu, 15 Sep 2011 08:37:12 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:disposition-notification-to:date:from:user-agent :mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=ngCA07DwC3VcbzeY9H87YbFoDuWq5lWooevuve4UXls=; b=K4hsNwUyUmvHXz4r13EYOtmBGBXMK94UibLaOOJbiK66xsoAG+Eej65EmyAmy6ePdk qMrUO72oGGVX8Ng9uNGpe11EZwEZSHR3xs/D/8hVeOKW1vpCiccPJyeo4iwTCMQXQC6l LXQ9n8415ffJrb1jjTwCNVjVk5qeQuVEmsIcg= Received: by 10.229.90.97 with SMTP id h33mr1043807qcm.185.1316101032300; Thu, 15 Sep 2011 08:37:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.0.199] (ool-18ba4338.dyn.optonline.net. [24.186.67.56]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id cg14sm7793636qab.0.2011.09.15.08.37.11 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 15 Sep 2011 08:37:11 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E721BA6.3090701@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 11:37:10 -0400 From: Jonathan Vomacka User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:6.0.2) Gecko/20110902 Thunderbird/6.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthew Seaman References: <4E70F1FA.1040407@gmail.com> <957E5375-556A-4145-9508-4354B31DCB25@mac.com> <4E70F8A3.4010700@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4E70F8A3.4010700@infracaninophile.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 8.2 Partition Sizing question 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: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 15:37:15 -0000 Thanks again Matthew On 9/14/2011 2:55 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 14/09/2011 19:31, Chuck Swiger wrote: >> On Sep 14, 2011, at 11:27 AM, Jonathan Vomacka wrote: >>>> In regards to partitioning, I have a question regarding a "rumor" >>>> that has been told to me by various different linux experts, and >>>> I wanted to confirm if this also takes place with FreeBSD Unix. >>>> In the past, I have always had the root filesystem (/) and the >>>> /usr filesystem all on seperate partitions. I was told that >>>> having /usr on a seperate partition is an "old" way of doing >>>> things and actually causes issues when /usr is mounted separately >>>> from root (/). Does this play true in FreeBSD or is that thought >>>> process nonsense? I was told to create a larger root filesystem >>>> and NOT create usr seperately as /usr will mount off the root >>>> filesystem anyway. Will there be any issues by having /usr on a >>>> separate partition then root? I will like to know any opinions on >>>> this, as well as suggestions based on how other FreeBSD guru's >>>> have their server setups. > >> 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. >> However, there is nothing wrong with a single root partition (well, >> and swap partition), either. > > Use ZFS and you can put / and /usr on different filesystems (zfses), > without any need to worry about not having made any of those filesystems > big enough. (Since all the free space is held in common for all of the > zfses on the same zpool.) The best of both worlds. > > Cheers, > > Matthew >