On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 06:08:24PM -0500, Jesse Guardiani wrote:
Hello,
I'm a FreeBSD 5.3 user as well as a Gentoo Linux user.
In Gentoo linux, you only have to create 3 partitions:
/boot
swap
/
In FreeBSD, you seem to have to create many more:
/
swap
/usr
/var
/tmp
This is
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
Anthony Atkielski wrote:
Jesse Guardiani writes:
How recent are we talking about?
In the 5.x timeframe, I believe, but I don't remember exactly when the
improvements were made. I recall that soft updates are now encouraged
on just about any partition.
I've never had any trouble with
On 2005-03-03 18:39, Jesse Guardiani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 01:15:00AM -0500, Garance A Drosehn wrote:
I have run with softupdates on for '/' on all my systems, for
a few years now. It has not caused me any problems that I
know of, but then the way I define my partitions is probably a
lot different than what most people do.
On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 18:08:24 -0500
Jesse Guardiani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm a FreeBSD 5.3 user as well as a Gentoo Linux user.
In Gentoo linux, you only have to create 3 partitions:
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In FreeBSD, you seem to have to create many more:
not true, during installation
Jesse Guardiani wrote:
In particular, it seems that /boot MUST be on the same
partition as /. This stinks, as now you have to create
separate partitions for /usr and /var, which wastes space.
You are not required to create separate partitions, but there are good
reasons to do so, namely to avoid
Anthony Atkielski wrote:
Jesse Guardiani writes:
Then why doesn't sysinstall enable soft updates on the root FS by
default?
Because the root is not often written, and any data loss on the root is
likely to have more negative effects than on other directories (often it
would be something
Jesse Guardiani writes:
How recent are we talking about?
In the 5.x timeframe, I believe, but I don't remember exactly when the
improvements were made. I recall that soft updates are now encouraged
on just about any partition.
I've never had any trouble with it, but my system is lightly
Hello,
I'm a FreeBSD 5.3 user as well as a Gentoo Linux user.
In Gentoo linux, you only have to create 3 partitions:
/boot
swap
/
In FreeBSD, you seem to have to create many more:
/
swap
/usr
/var
/tmp
In particular, it seems that /boot MUST be on the same
partition as /. This stinks, as now
Jesse Guardiani wrote:
Hello,
I'm a FreeBSD 5.3 user as well as a Gentoo Linux user.
In Gentoo linux, you only have to create 3 partitions:
/boot
swap
/
In FreeBSD, you seem to have to create many more:
/
swap
/usr
/var
/tmp
In particular, it seems that /boot MUST be on the same
partition as /.
Jesse Guardiani wrote:
snip snip
Anyway, that worked. The kernel boots now, but it prompts
me at the beginning of the rc process for the root device.
I give it:
ufs:ad1s1d
Which is my / partition, and it boots successfully.
Is it possible to automate this process so that the loader
knows to use
On Thursday 03 March 2005 5:41 pm, you wrote:
Jesse Guardiani wrote:
Hello,
I'm a FreeBSD 5.3 user as well as a Gentoo Linux user.
In Gentoo linux, you only have to create 3 partitions:
/boot
swap
/
In FreeBSD, you seem to have to create many more:
/
swap
/usr
/var
/tmp
Kevin Kinsey wrote:
Jesse Guardiani wrote:
snip snip
Anyway, that worked. The kernel boots now, but it prompts
me at the beginning of the rc process for the root device.
I give it:
ufs:ad1s1d
Which is my / partition, and it boots successfully.
Is it possible to automate this process so
Jesse Guardiani wrote:
On Thursday 03 March 2005 5:41 pm, [someone] wrote:
I'm not sure I understand the problem. If you don't want to create more
partitions, then don't. You can make an 80gb (or 300gb, or whatever)
drive into two partitions - a swap partition (2gig) and a / partition
(78
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 10:09, Jesse Guardiani wrote:
On Thursday 03 March 2005 5:41 pm, you wrote:
Jesse Guardiani wrote:
Hello,
I'm a FreeBSD 5.3 user as well as a Gentoo Linux user.
In Gentoo linux, you only have to create 3 partitions:
/boot
swap
/
In FreeBSD, you seem to
On Thursday 03 March 2005 07:45 pm, Bob Johnson wrote:
Jesse Guardiani wrote:
On Thursday 03 March 2005 5:41 pm, [someone] wrote:
I'm not sure I understand the problem. If you don't want to create more
partitions, then don't. You can make an 80gb (or 300gb, or whatever)
drive into two
Jesse Guardiani writes:
I'm a FreeBSD 5.3 user as well as a Gentoo Linux user.
In Gentoo linux, you only have to create 3 partitions:
/boot
swap
/
In FreeBSD, you seem to have to create many more:
/
swap
/usr
/var
/tmp
You don't _have_ to create these partitions. They are just the
Jesse Guardiani writes:
Doesn't the boot partition have to NOT have soft updates though?
That's your choice. By default, it won't, since data loss is more
likely with soft updates (anything that doesn't immediately write
everything physically to disk creates a risk of data loss). But you can
Bob Johnson wrote:
Jesse Guardiani wrote:
On Thursday 03 March 2005 5:41 pm, [someone] wrote:
I'm not sure I understand the problem. If you don't want to create more
partitions, then don't. You can make an 80gb (or 300gb, or whatever)
drive into two partitions - a swap partition (2gig)
At 6:24 AM +0100 3/4/05, Anthony Atkielski wrote:
Jesse Guardiani writes:
Doesn't the boot partition have to NOT have soft updates
though?
That's your choice. By default, it won't, since data loss
is more likely with soft updates (anything that doesn't
immediately write everything physically
Jesse Guardiani writes:
Then why doesn't sysinstall enable soft updates on the root FS by default?
Because the root is not often written, and any data loss on the root is
likely to have more negative effects than on other directories (often it
would be something like a kernel rebuild). So
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