From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 19 07:51:40 2012 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 F0C651065672 for ; Sun, 19 Feb 2012 07:51:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sclists@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qw0-f47.google.com (mail-qw0-f47.google.com [209.85.216.47]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A44EB8FC14 for ; Sun, 19 Feb 2012 07:51:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qadz30 with SMTP id z30so2466101qad.13 for ; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 23:51:40 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of sclists@gmail.com designates 10.229.137.18 as permitted sender) client-ip=10.229.137.18; Authentication-Results: mr.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of sclists@gmail.com designates 10.229.137.18 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=sclists@gmail.com; dkim=pass header.i=sclists@gmail.com Received: from mr.google.com ([10.229.137.18]) by 10.229.137.18 with SMTP id u18mr11636842qct.153.1329637900010 (num_hops = 1); Sat, 18 Feb 2012 23:51:40 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=I5ZhPGGO5bDIVE3IxcCJDEDyyusnEgOxMwkWGQ/nR4I=; b=FNctew4XBUHl8Lc1C+7Qy94iEziWQIhAciDUZw79JV9x42au60Sf2NVaMLpDg0Pzo3 /w7Z+Ikon1W0V79ehYGPIcIFjWVg1v9C6sIMTAqg14dsh5ySVX2BiKRH5C0vhpuefczp /fbPf39tZbUP7YMZxV/yiKajyMeMS9pI2Baxs= Received: by 10.229.137.18 with SMTP id u18mr9833365qct.153.1329636125862; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 23:22:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.4] (ool-182c6755.dyn.optonline.net. [24.44.103.85]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id hi8sm39528964qab.3.2012.02.18.23.22.04 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 18 Feb 2012 23:22:05 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4F40A324.5090103@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 02:22:12 -0500 From: Stephen Cook User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20120216 Thunderbird/10.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4F3ECF23.5000706@fisglobal.com> <4F3F8672.3090805@my.gd> <20120218213417.GB33662@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <201202190803.39548.erich@alogreentechnologies.com> In-Reply-To: <201202190803.39548.erich@alogreentechnologies.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: One or Four? 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: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 07:51:41 -0000 On 2/18/2012 8:03 PM, Erich Dollansky wrote: > On Sunday 19 February 2012 04:34:17 Jerry McAllister wrote: >> On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 12:07:30PM +0100, Damien Fleuriot wrote: >> So, Polytropon's three choice pattern is good. Or, I could even >> suggest just two choices. > A normal user will use the first option here and get screwed when the file system got affected by a power failure. The second option is not an option for a general user. >> But, that middle choice that Polytropon suggested is OK to include >> if you think it is needed. /, /tmp, /usr, /var, [/home] +swap > Yes, I strong urge you to leave this at least as an option. Just with a larger / slice of 1 or better 2GB. >> I don't see that this plan adds any significant complication or confusion. >> Nor does it prevent any of the schemes people have been advocating or >> requesting. > You seem to forget normal users who just want to use the system. They do not think of recovery until it actually happens. I don't know if I count as a *normal* user but here's my two cents: Some of you think it isn't a good idea to put everything on one partition. I'm not yet ready to manually set them up. Every time I get into it I read tens of articles and blogs and they all boil down to "it depends". So some middle-ground "this guy is willing to learn but can't set it up optimally, and doesn't want a bad config because he is still somewhat confused" option should be available, and possibly labeled as such. -- Stephen