Thanks bud.
On 9/15/2011 5:19 AM, f92...@hushmail.com wrote:
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.
To elaborate on this:
Assuming you have separate /var, /tmp, /usr and /home partitions,
the only files that should be on / are:
1. Part of base system not in /usr
2. Kernels (/boot/kernel)
3. root home directory (/root)
Therefore the size of / does not grow with time on most systems. It
also tends to be independent of what the system is used for, unlike
the size of /usr for example.
On my systems / is between 1.5 gb to 2 gb depending on overall disk
size. /usr is up to 10 gb on desktop systems.
A benefit of having / on its own partition is that it becomes much
harder to run / out of disk space by accident. Checking out source
trees (/usr/ports, /usr/src), building world (/usr/obj), building
ports (/usr/ports), running software that uses
/usr/local/<programname>/logs for storing its log files, etc. all
have potential to write to /usr if you don't have appropriate
configuration/symlinks/partitions set up to redirect them to the
right places. If your /usr is separate from / then running out of
disk space on /usr is usually harmless.
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