Slices

Sasa Stupar sasa at stupar.homelinux.net
Tue Dec 13 00:36:09 PST 2005



--On 12. december 2005 19:29 -0500 Jerry McAllister 
<jerrymc at clunix.cl.msu.edu> wrote:

>>
>> On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 12:40:40 -0600
>> Kevin Kinsey <kdk at daleco.biz> wrote:
>>
>> > Sasa Stupar wrote:
>> >
>> > > You can also do the same as I did. I have just configured one slice
>> > > named / which
>> > > takes all the space on hdd and now I don't need to worry about
>> > > space shortage.
>> >
>> >
>> > OK then, but suppose we have some runaway process
>
> The main two reasons for dividing up your FreeBSD disk in to partitions
> rather than making just one big partition are to reduce the threat of
> runaway processes and to manage backup and restore sizes.
>
> Think those things out to meet your needs and resources.
>
> ////jerry
>

OK. But then what would be ideal slice size for /, /var, /usr, /boot?

-- 
Sasa Stupar


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