On Fri, 02 Jul 2010 08:33:45 +0100 Matthew Seaman <[email protected]> wrote:
> Is it time for me to start advocating "one big partition" again? > > This may not be the consensus view, but I have found that for a quiet > life and general lack of botheration it helps to create *only two* > partitions on your hard drive: > > b: Swap -- usually 2x RAM > a: Everything else This is perfect bikeshed material: people believe FreeBSD's partitioning scheme is superior to (for example) Linux, and that by dumping everything in a single partition we'd be dumbing it down. I still create separate partitions through paranoia, to avoid corrupting the entire disk if for example /usr/obj is being written to when the power goes out. I don't know if that would happen but I've had too many problem over the years with various filesystems that I don't trust it. With ZFS I've gone even further and created separate filesystems for /usr/src, /usr/ports etc. The output of 'mount' looks somewhat like a Solaris machine now :) I have a task on my TODO list to increase the sizes of the partitions in sysinstall: for example / goes to 1GB, /var to 4GB. I hope to commit the code in the next couple of weeks. -- Bruce Cran _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
