Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 23:52:35 +0100 From: Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> To: RW <list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Did we must put the mounted partition '/' and '/boot' in the same slice ? Message-ID: <42CDB233.4050402@dial.pipex.com> In-Reply-To: <200507072055.59414.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> References: <20050707111924.950B043D58@mx1.FreeBSD.org> <1e22f35905070707427dbd31f7@mail.gmail.com> <42CD660E.8090408@dial.pipex.com> <200507072055.59414.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com>
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RW wrote: >On Thursday 07 July 2005 18:27, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: > > >>1Gb just because it's peanuts to a 200Gb disk, and I don't bother with >>/tmp separately. >> >> > >I use one because, by default, / is mounted without soft-updates. It is >possible to turn it on, but for the sake of a few hundred MB it seems >sensible to go with the default of a separate partition. > > If I ran a machine with users on it, I might agree :-) But there's just me and I set TMP and TMPDIR to /var/tmp which many programs used to pick up on when I first set them years ago. sort does, for e.g. and that was always a tmp killer in the kind of environments I worked in. Plus *I* know to use /var/tmp. Nowadays my /tmp has a small number of sockets and gubbins so I doubt softupdates would make any perceivable difference to me. Horses for courses, --Alex
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