From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 19 7:32:14 2003 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 7A16537B401 for ; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 07:32:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from mired.org (ip68-97-54-220.ok.ok.cox.net [68.97.54.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 039EA43F3F for ; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 07:32:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm-dated-1043422325.b5de9c@mired.org) Received: (qmail 82236 invoked from network); 19 Jan 2003 15:32:05 -0000 Received: from localhost.mired.org (HELO guru.mired.org) (127.0.0.1) by localhost.mired.org with SMTP; 19 Jan 2003 15:32:05 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15914.50420.635858.184640@guru.mired.org> Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 09:32:04 -0600 To: Jeff Penn Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Resizing partitions for 5.0 In-Reply-To: <20030119123534.GB27061@jrpenn.demon.co.uk> References: <20030119123534.GB27061@jrpenn.demon.co.uk> X-Mailer: VM 7.07 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`; h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: Mike Meyer X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.68 (Shut Out) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In <20030119123534.GB27061@jrpenn.demon.co.uk>, Jeff Penn typed: > I am fishing for wisdom on the worth of breaking up /usr. Directories > I've considered moving around are: Basically, don't break them up. Unix file systems used to be fragile enough that separating them limited the damage. These days, that's not true, so all you're doing in creating extra file systems is creating more things that can cause problems by running out of space. Leaving them together lets them share the extra space, making it less likely that you'll run out of space. The reasons for splitting a file system these days are administrative - meaning you have different backup or upgrade paths, different mounting options, or similar things. http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message