Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 22:35:06 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> To: chuckr@glue.umd.edu Cc: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Partitioning suggestions? Message-ID: <199711180335.WAA00619@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <199711180211.VAA18014@earth.mat.net> from "chuckr@glue.umd.edu" at "Nov 17, 97 09:11:18 pm"
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chuckr@glue.umd.edu said: > > A friend who programs a lot shocked me by saying that she regularly > installs just one big partition, for /,/usr/ the whole works. I'd > never done that myself, but I've been trying to come up with some solid > reason why it's a bad idea. > I have a huge number of partitions (usually use three per disk at the 4-8GB.) The only major things that I see is wrong with one big partition are some security issues, and the inability to have a <nearly> read-only root. I don't generally like partitions less than 500MB for work space. I'd actually like to look into a mini-root system, to virtually eliminate the need for a fixit floppy. That mini-root would not normally be mounted, but would be there when you need it. I sure wish that floppies were always 100MB :-). -- John dyson@freebsd.org jdyson@nc.com
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