i'm using different unices for 7 years and excluding few cases i never
made other partitioning scheme than 2 partitions: swap and /
i have no problems like "there's out of space in partition x while plenty
of y".
it's far easier to do backups too (single dump).
i read lots of howtos about this both in FreeBSD, NetBSD and (few years
ago) in linux.
all states that multiple partition gives you:
1) better performance
2) better recovery in case of crash
in case of 2-nd argument - for me it's complete nonsense. in case of disk
crash it doesn't make any difference, in case of filesystem crash no
difference anyway.
UFS/FFS filesystem is anyway "partitioned" with "cylinder groups" and
no destruction makes whole filesystem unreadable. statistically - with
similar amount of destruction (writing nonsense because of hardware or
software failure) same amount of data is unaccessible on given space, no
matter if it's one or 20 filesystems.
it was indeed true for old BSD unix in PDP11 times that used "old
filesystem" with all inodes on the beginning of partition. in case of bad
write at the beginning of disk all content of one partition were lost. and
i thing it's a myth copied years and years till today.
in case of 1-st argument - in theory it's true. in theory too - difference
will be minimal unless you have your partitions very close to full and
fragmentation starts to make big change on performance. but - that case -
you would like to have one partition too to avoid problem with space!!
in linux (at least 2.0 and 2.2 kernels) it's worse because linux tends to
optimize disk access on filesystem layer much better than on device driver
layer. found experimentally that copying files on same partition is much
faster than crossing different partition. in second case lot of
disk head moves are done. but this is linux case...
in both FreeBSD and NetBSD it looks in my test that the difference is
really difficult to measure.
fsck speed is same in checking one partition or many smaller. and it
doesn't matter at all as FreeBSD (and NetBSD) doesn't crash every few
hours like windows
On Sun, 12 Jun 2005, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 14:12:41 +0200 (CEST)
From: Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: ptitoliv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Resizing /var
But there are some constraints :
- I have no free unpartitioned space available
- I can't format any partition because and I can't loose datas
Is there any solution with some BSD tools in order to solve this problem ?
link /var/spool to /usr/spool :)
Thank you for your answers
Best Regards,
Ptitoliv
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