Re: Problem: How to resize FreeBSD "partitions" on a live system?

It seems that your preferred suggestion is actually to make a symlink
to a /usr location. While I can see that it could work, doesn't that
take away the entire point of dividing the system from the beginning?

Also, isn't it bad practice to change the default location? I am myself
still more than a little confused over "Unix" directory structure to
begin with, but it seems that they have been thought through and have a
very good reason for being that way. Or am I wrong?

Yes, I am a perfectionist. I can't stand unclean systems and can
actually lose sleep over that kind of thing, even if everything works
perfectly fine and nobody will ever know about it (but me, that is).

In the past, when I have asked something similar, I have basically got
replies such as "that's why you can easily change it later" (referring
to re-arranging space for the partitions). It doesn't seem to be that
easy at all...

In Windows, I remember using some commercial third-party GUI tool
("Partition Magic"?) that could easily re-arrange them. I must admit
that I expected there to be some kind of program bundeled with FreeBSD
that could change the "slices" freely, only requiring a reboot to take
action... Apparently, that is not the case.

Hmm... I'm leaning towards letting everything be at / + swap, because I
take backups only of my own files, reinstalling the system in case of
an emergency... It's the philosophy and performance parts that worry
me...

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