On Sep 14, 2011, at 11:27 AM, Jonathan Vomacka wrote: > In regards to partitioning, I have a question regarding a "rumor" that has > been told to me by various different linux experts, and I wanted to confirm > if this also takes place with FreeBSD Unix. In the past, I have always had > the root filesystem (/) and the /usr filesystem all on seperate partitions. I > was told that having /usr on a seperate partition is an "old" way of doing > things and actually causes issues when /usr is mounted separately from root > (/). Does this play true in FreeBSD or is that thought process nonsense? I > was told to create a larger root filesystem and NOT create usr seperately as > /usr will mount off the root filesystem anyway. Will there be any issues by > having /usr on a separate partition then root? I will like to know any > opinions on this, as well as suggestions based on how other FreeBSD guru's > have their server setups.
There is nothing wrong with having / and /usr on separate partitions; in fact, there are some mild advantages to fine-grained partitioning for folks who pay attention to their filesystem space usage. However, there is nothing wrong with a single root partition (well, and swap partition), either. Regards, -- -Chuck _______________________________________________ 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"
