On 02.07.2010 09:33, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 01/07/2010 22:29:54, Ed Flecko wrote: >> Henrik, >> When I FIRST installed 8.0, I did create a separate /home partition. >> When I installed the kernel and starting running out of space in / , I >> thought "O.K...I'll let FreeBSD make the partition sizes IT wants to >> and see if I have the same problem, and I did. > >> Apparently, 512M is just, not, quite big enough so I think I'll try 1G >> to give me plenty of room. > > 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 >
I usually (today) set up something similar. I sysinstall FreeBSD onto a
CF card with the "one-big-root" method, then create a zpool (on
spinning-metal-storage) where I create the usr, tmp, var fs'es, tar|tar
the originals over and fix the mountpoint info on the zfs'es. Then I add
swap on a zvol (since I don't know how to properly use a kernel dump, I
don't need swap to store it).
I use this method everywhere except on VMs inside VMWare ESXi. It's been
my painful experience that zfs inside vmware machines is a bad idea.
//Svein
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