On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 11:25:35AM +0000, Thomas Mueller wrote: > from darc...@gmail.com (Denise H. G.): > > > I strongly advise that /usr and /usr/local reside on different > > partitions. Furthermore, If you plan to run a desktop environment, your > > /usr/local should be big enough, say 8G - 10G, to hold all stuff you > > built from the ports. And putting /var on a separate partitiion is a > > good idea, I think. > > > I don't like to put /var on a separate partition because of the danger > of running short of space. I had nervous moments when running > freebsd-update on the older computer and seeing the used part of /var grow.
For that very reason, I put /var on a separate partition. Stuff being written to /var is most likely to over run stuff and trash a / partition. ////jerry > > I don't really see a need to put /usr/local on a separate partition, though > conceivably you could build applications with both FreeBSD ports and NetBSD > pkgsrc, but keep these separate. NetBSD pkgsrc has been ported to other > (quasi-)Unixes including FreeBSD. Default directory corresponding to > FreeBSD's /usr/local is /usr/pkg . > > I think I like FreeBSD ports better than NetBSD pkgsrc, the latter which I > used only with NetBSD. > > I originally installed FreeBSD 9.0-BETA1 using bsdinstall on the USB stick, > including the ports. > > There was a conflict when I ran "portsnap fetch update", that didn't work. I > had to run "portsnap fetch" and "portsnap extract", scrapping the ports tree > from bsdinstall in favor of the fresh ports tree. So now I know best to not > install ports tree from bsdinstall; this would presumably apply for > sysinstall too. > > Tom > > _______________________________________________ > 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" _______________________________________________ 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"
