On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 07:45:19PM -0500, Bob Johnson wrote: > Jesse Guardiani wrote: > > >On Thursday 03 March 2005 5:41 pm, [someone] wrote: > > > > <snip> > >>It's *best* to make more > >>partitions (esp for /var) so that if something goes out of control > >>logging, or you just neglect your logs, it doesn't go and fill up your > >>only (ie / ) partition. Like most *nix OS's, it can be as simple or as > >>complicated as you want it to be. > >> > >> > > > >I want / + /boot. It's that simple.
A /boot for FreeBSD should really be unneccessary, that is more of a necessity in the past and more of a linux thing anyways, but I don't use one even on my linux systems anymore. > > > > > > > > What are you really trying to accomplish? You want to run softupdates > on / ? > > I believe it is perfectly acceptable to use softupdates on the root > partition these > days. The Handbook recommends turning on softupdates for all filesystems. > See > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/configtuning-disk.html > > I'm pretty sure my test system at home has only / and swap (because it > has a small hard drive), and uses softupdates on /. I'll check when I get > home. > > If you have some other reason for separating /boot from /, explain your > actual > goal, and perhaps we can help. > > - Bob > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- I sense much NT in you. NT leads to Bluescreen. Bluescreen leads to downtime. Downtime leads to suffering. NT is the path to the darkside. Powerful Unix is. Public Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc Fingerprint: CEE1 AAE2 F66C 59B5 34CA C415 6D35 E847 0118 A3D2
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