From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 21 15:20:27 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A3AD16A4EB for ; Mon, 21 Jun 2004 15:20:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp.ibctech.ca (shadow2.eagle.ca [209.167.16.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41A8243D2F for ; Mon, 21 Jun 2004 15:20:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from iaccounts@ibctech.ca) Received: (qmail 64405 invoked by uid 1003); 21 Jun 2004 15:20:01 -0000 Received: from iaccounts@ibctech.ca by smtp.ibctech.ca by uid 89 with qmail-scanner-1.20 (clamscan: 0.65. spamassassin: 2.60. Clear:RC:1(127.0.0.1):. Processed in 0.490751 secs); 21 Jun 2004 15:20:01 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO webmail.ibctech.ca) (127.0.0.1) by localhost.ibctech.ca with SMTP; 21 Jun 2004 15:20:00 -0000 Received: from 209.167.16.15 (SquirrelMail authenticated user steve@ibctech.ca) by webmail.ibctech.ca with HTTP; Mon, 21 Jun 2004 11:20:00 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4834.209.167.16.15.1087831200.squirrel@webmail.ibctech.ca> In-Reply-To: <200406211456.i5LEu2S07515@clunix.cl.msu.edu> References: <20040620204524.GA907@alex.lan> from "Alex de Kruijff" at Jun 20,2004 10:45:24 PM <200406211456.i5LEu2S07515@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 11:20:00 -0400 (EDT) From: "Steve Bertrand" To: "Jerry McAllister" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Partition sizes for small harddisk X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 15:20:27 -0000 > Actually, some of the heavy hitters out there say they have been > leaning toward all / disk partitioning + swap, of course. A little OT, but although it has been advised over and over that you should never use a / only system, in some cases I have found it very useful. It is exceptionally easy to make complete backups (clones) of file systems, great for if you ever think you need to expand the size of your disk and easy to restore from tape to a new hard disk. Everything in one place, with minimal disklabel editing. On a heavily used production system, I wouldn't do this, but on firewalls and the like it's great. Especially when using flash memory cards as disk drives and need to 'flash' the card with the new file system image. Steve > > ////jerry > >> >> -- >> Alex >> >> Articles based on solutions that I use: >> http://www.kruijff.org/alex/FreeBSD/ >> > > _______________________________________________ > 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" >