On Tue, Feb 13, 2024 at 04:52:08PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > On Tue, Feb 13, 2024 at 4:12 PM Janne Johansson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Den tis 13 feb. 2024 kl 13:40 skrev Odhiambo Washington < > > [email protected]>: > > > > > > Is there a disadvantage to having this layout style where everything is > > on > > > 1 partition? > > > > A few. The partitioning scheme allow certain parts of the filesystem > > to have different permissions, > > > > /dev/sd1a on / type ffs (local) > > /dev/sd1e on /home type ffs (local, nodev, nosuid) > > /dev/sd1d on /usr type ffs (local, nodev) > > /dev/sd0a on /usr/local type ffs (local, nodev, wxallowed) > > > > but also if something decides to log like crazy and fills up /var and > > you have /var ( or /var/log ) as a separate partition, the rest of the > > system is not affected by it going full and it might be lots easier to > > recover from it when the rest of the paths work as expected. > > > > It's a tradeoff between having to know in advance where data will go > > or not, versus being able to prevent some nasty issues that could > > occur if you let someone else run code on your machine. > > > > For a throwaway VM that you can reproduce, it would not matter so > > much. For a box you really care about and is meant to run for yeats, > > it matters more. > > > > -- > > May the most significant bit of your life be positive. > > > > Hello Janne, > > Thanks a million for such a nice explanation. > Let me now ask Google about those flags.
It would be better to read the mount(8) manual page, as it explains what the mount options mean in the context of OpenBSD. See "man mount" or, if you have to use a web browser, the online manual at http://man.openbsd.org/mount.8 -- Andreas (Kusalananda) Kähäri Uppsala, Sweden .
