Re: Best "one size fits all" FreeBSD partition layout

From: Michel Talon (talon_at_lpthe.jussieu.fr)
Date: 01/21/04 

Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 07:15:34 +0000 (UTC)

Patrick Scheible <kkt@drizzle.com> wrote:
>
> anti: it's aggrevating when one partition fills up even though you
> have loads of space in another one.
>

In my opinion, this is the most compelling argument.
For many uses, partitioning the disk is a huge error, without any
benefit, and sooner or later you will be hit by the above. When i
first installed FreeBSD i foolishly followed the advices of
partitioning, and later on it became necessary to reinstall. Note
that most Linux distros put essentially anything (except /boot)
in a single partition. Only when a machine is carefully administred by a
competent sysadm, a good partitioning scheme may be really beneficial.

> so it's kind of a wash.
>
> -- Patrick 

-- 
Michel TALON

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