Re: FreeBSD 5.x /usr Partitioning advice

2004-08-18 Thread Charles Ulrich
Vince Hoffman said: > Other than what you have already mentioned then no not realy. By the way > I (and i think it suggests in the handbook to) keep my kernel config in a > subdirectory of my home directory and just symlink it to > /usr/src/i386/conf as i have been know to blow away the entire /us

Re: FreeBSD 5.x /usr Partitioning advice

2004-08-18 Thread jon
>I'm planning on making two partions for data found on /usr: >Does this stretegy sound at all intelligent? Yes, it sounds like a good plan for all the reasons you stated. >I'm planning on making /usr 4G, and /usr2 6G. Does that sound sane? I'm running 5.2.1 with X, apache, samba, and 162 ports

Re: FreeBSD 5.x /usr Partitioning advice

2004-08-18 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, Vince Hoffman wrote: > > > On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, Terry wrote: > > > I'm planning on making two partions for data found on /usr: > > > > /usr2 which holds ports, src, and obj; and > > /usrwhich holds everything else. > > > > the /usr2 directories would be symlinked to /u

Re: FreeBSD 5.x /usr Partitioning advice

2004-08-18 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, Terry wrote: > I'm planning on making two partions for data found on /usr: > > /usr2 which holds ports, src, and obj; and > /usrwhich holds everything else. > > the /usr2 directories would be symlinked to /usr. > > The reason I want to do this is because I have a diffe

FreeBSD 5.x /usr Partitioning advice

2004-08-18 Thread Terry
I'm planning on making two partions for data found on /usr: /usr2 which holds ports, src, and obj; and /usrwhich holds everything else. the /usr2 directories would be symlinked to /usr. The reason I want to do this is because I have a different backup strategy for the contents of /usr vs.