Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 15:51:43 -0600 From: Joe Vender <jvender@owensboro.net> To: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best partitioning scheme for my HDD? Please advise. Message-ID: <200702201551.44372.jvender@owensboro.net> In-Reply-To: <44vehwy5zi.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <200702192337.13712.jvender@owensboro.net> <44vehwy5zi.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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On Tuesday 20 February 2007 13:38, Lowell Gilbert wrote: ... > In a system that tight for space (for running KDE, anyway), I would > just put all the space (aside from some swap) into a single root > partition. The risks of something running away and filling a > partition are much less of an issue than the risks of filling up a > partition with legitimate data and needing to play games to keep > everything installed. > > Greg Lehey has been recommending this approach in his books for at > least a couple of editions now. This is the approach I take with slackware, since I've never had any problems with system hangs/reboots using it. But, what concerns me about this approach when using FreeBSD is that I've had spontaneous reboot problems with FreeBSD. Although I think I've narrowed the solution down to just not using kernel ppp, since I get the reboots using pppd whether or not I've set debug.mpsafenet=0 on my system, there may be other issues involved. With everything under /, a spontaneous reboot might leave the filesystem corrupted and unusable, correct? I cound certainly try it, though, once I know that I've taken care of the rebooting issue for good. Joe
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