Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 20:40:22 -0800 From: Carl Johnson <carlj@peak.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: One or Four? Message-ID: <87wr7j1lds.fsf@oak.localnet> References: <4F3ECF23.5000706@fisglobal.com> <4F3F8672.3090805@my.gd> <20120218213417.GB33662@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <201202190803.39548.erich@alogreentechnologies.com>
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Erich Dollansky <erich@alogreentechnologies.com> writes: > Hi, > > 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. >> > yes, three options is ok. > >> [ ] all in one + swap >> Create one partition containing all subtrees >> plus one swap partition. >> >> [ ] user-defined >> Make your own partitioning selection manually. >> (Both number and size of partitions) >> with a reasonable way to specify partitions and sizes. >> The old Sysinstall way is not bad, but if it obsolete, >> then something as easy that fits the new GPT based system. >> > 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. What will happen in the case of a power failure? I just see an fsck when that happens, and I have been running unix and linux for about 20 years. I have always had multiple partitions in the past, but for 9.0 I went with the single partition. -- Carl Johnson carlj@peak.org
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