On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Robison, Dave <david.robi...@fisglobal.com> wrote: > Hiya, > > A question has arisen with the implementation of bsdinstall in 9.x as > opposed to sysinstall in 8.x and previous versions of FreeBSD. > > It has always been FreeBSD's default to create four partitions and swap as > such: > > / > /tmp > /var > /usr > swap > > The recent changes in 9.x with bsdinstall use a default behavior which > creates only one partition and swap, with everything living under a single > "/" partition as such: > > / > swap > > We'd like a show of hands to see if folks prefer the "old" style default > with 4 partitions and swap, or the newer iteration with 1 partition and > swap. > > This is not a discussion of MBR vs GPT. The default moving forward from 9.x > will be to use GPT. > > We realize that one can use bsdinstall to create as many partitions as one > wants. However, the new default is for one partition and swap. We want to > know if people would prefer the older style default with four partitions and > swap when selecting "Guided Partitioning" and "Use Entire Disk". > > Let the majority decide which layout is preferred for the default.
/ and /usr should be merged together, /var should stay separate, and /tmp should be tmpfs :) At least that's my preferred server configuration starting with 9.0. I see no benefits in keeping / and /usr separate. A desktop can have /var on the same file system as well, but servers should always isolate it. Just a few days ago, a misbehaving php script filled-up my entire /var partition when it got into an endless loop. I've since realized the value of blocking repeated error log messages in php configuration, but keeping /var away from the rest was a good safety net. - Max _______________________________________________ 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"
