From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 26 19:29:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA20254 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 26 May 1998 19:29:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA20244 for ; Tue, 26 May 1998 19:29:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA25865; Tue, 26 May 1998 19:29:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 19:29:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: chas cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: adding 25GB as single partition ok ? In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19980522231438.00969b40@peace.com.my> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 22 May 1998, chas wrote: > Just like the school of thought that places /var on > /usr/var since disk usage is unpredictable, I figured > that it's less troublesome and more efficient (in terms > of usage) to put everyone and everything on one big > 25GB slice. Does this sound reasonable ? Any caveats > to beware of ? You can't easily back up /var, at least using dump. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message