If some attacker uses a botnet to flood your log files or database, or if a bug causes a process to enter an endless loop writing to disk, do you think it should be on the same partition as the OS?that having all of those separate partitions is of little value on most systems.
mharvey87 said:How does somebody run out of space on / if /usr, /var, and /tmp are separate partitions? With that setup nothing on / should ever change except for changing settings in config files and updating the base system.
What is the size of /? 0.5 GB (old) or 1 GB (new)? Do you know that the amd64 custom kernel with debug symbols takes ~320 MB? Now as GENERIC kernel is already in /, installation of a new custom kernel will fail for the 0.5 GB (old) case! In 1 GB (new) you can have at most two extra custom kernels! That is why I even further separate / and /boot, each on their own bsdlabel.mharvey87 said:How does somebody run out of space on / if /usr, /var, and /tmp are separate partitions? With that setup nothing on / should ever change except for the settings in config files and updating the base system.
mharvey87 said:It's really annoying that considering the algorithm is so simple and was already in the installer's code that it was even removed. Now instead of 1 single button press I have to go through some tedious partition creator dialog. That is a step back not a step forward.
GreenMeanie said:No, FreeBSD would take off if you could stop people in these forums telling others it is a server software only. I stopped using it when I couldn't even get Gnome to automount a USB Stick and external HDDs. Yes, it needs to be easier to use for the masses.
That is why I personally still use DEBIAN and CENTOS. Ease of use and not wanting to remember 100's of commands to get something to work that I can do with a GUI. Nevermind the installer still sucks copy UBUNTU's.
wblock@ said:True. But it's only recently that the base size for / was increased. Before then, building a new kernel could overfill that filesystem with symbol files. My hope is that pc-sysinstall will be integrated, because it does a lot of things the right way.