One or Four?

[Robert Bonomi]

> From owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org  Fri Feb 17 19:56:00 2012
> From: Doug Hardie <bc979 at lafn.org>
> Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:50:44 -0800
> To: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
> Subject: Re: One or Four?
>
>
> On Feb 17, 2012, at 2:05 PM, Robison, Dave wrote:
> > We'd like a show of hands to see if folks prefer the "old" style default 
> > with 4 partitions and swap, or the newer iteration with 1 partition and 
> > swap.
>
>
> I only run servers and set them up with /, /usr, and swap.  Other partitions 
> are placed on other disks with typically one partition per disk.  I link /var
> and /tmp into /usr.

That last is a *BAD*IDEA*(tm).  There _are_ programs that assume that /var/tmp
and /usr/tme are *different* places -- and will attempt to create 'distinct' 
files _with_the_same_name_ in the two diretories.