From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 2 19:24:53 2008 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 B9CA8106570A for ; Tue, 2 Dec 2008 19:24:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from mx01.qsc.de (mx01.qsc.de [213.148.129.14]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79B768FC1B for ; Tue, 2 Dec 2008 19:24:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from r55.edvax.de (port-92-196-24-200.dynamic.qsc.de [92.196.24.200]) by mx01.qsc.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 737CC3CFFE; Tue, 2 Dec 2008 20:24:39 +0100 (CET) Received: from r55.edvax.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by r55.edvax.de (8.14.2/8.14.2) with SMTP id mB2JOa30001627; Tue, 2 Dec 2008 20:24:36 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 20:24:36 +0100 From: Polytropon To: Pieter Donche Message-Id: <20081202202436.88c54b26.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: References: <20081202111740.96805018.freebsd@edvax.de> Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.7 (GTK+ 2.12.1; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "mail.list freebsd-questions" Subject: Re: UFS partitioning X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Polytropon List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:24:53 -0000 On Tue, 2 Dec 2008 11:53:23 +0100 (CET), Pieter Donche wrote: > I know / is the "root partition", but /root is the home-directory of > the user root (/etc/passwd: root:*:0:0:Charlie &:/root:/bin/csh). > I doubt this will ever be needed to be large? There is no special advice about what /root should contain. As you mentioned correctly, this content belongs to the system administrator "root". In the most cases I've seen, root stores a backup of configuration files and useful scripts that no one else should be able to use. And when you take into mind that many users use the sudo command instead of logging in as root, there's less use for this directory. My thought: It won't get large. > If its not large > fsck neither will spend much time in it. So I guess it's just safe > not to make this a separate BSD-partiton ? No separate partition, correct. It's okay to make / at 1 GB max, and fsck won't run for long. > Yes, but it's hard to find out what is best... I'm constantly > swinged between the one (/ including /tmp /var /usr) and the > other (all separate) option ... In fact, there is no "the best", it completely depends on what you're going to do with the system. It has been explained before, but I'd like to mention some advantages of the "partitions approach" and the "one partition approach": The first one allows you to dump / restore data partition-wise, but when a partition is occupied 100%, the trouble starts. You don't have this problem when you have everything on one partition, but a "runaway disk space consumer" (e. g. a faulty program) can occupy all disk space causing problems for processes that would like to write to /tmp or /var. Finally, changing the paradigm would usually be combined with a complete re-installation. -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...