Erich Dollansky <er...@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 ca...@peak.org _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
