/boot like linux!

[Loren M. Lang]

On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 07:45:19PM -0500, Bob Johnson wrote:
> Jesse Guardiani wrote:
> 
> >On Thursday 03 March 2005 5:41 pm, [someone] wrote:
> > 
> >
<snip>
> >>It's *best* to make more  
> >>partitions (esp for /var) so that if something goes out of control 
> >>logging, or you just neglect your logs, it doesn't go and fill up your 
> >>only (ie / ) partition. Like most *nix OS's, it can be as simple or as 
> >>complicated as you want it to be.
> >>   
> >>
> >
> >I want / + /boot. It's that simple.

A /boot for FreeBSD should really be unneccessary, that is more of a
necessity in the past and more of a linux thing anyways, but I don't use
one even on my linux systems anymore.

> >
> > 
> >
> 
> What are you really trying to accomplish?  You want to run softupdates 
> on / ?
> 
> I believe it is perfectly acceptable to use softupdates on the root 
> partition these
> days.  The Handbook recommends turning on softupdates for all filesystems. 
> See
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/configtuning-disk.html
> 
> I'm pretty sure my test system at home has only / and swap (because it
> has a small hard drive), and uses softupdates on /.  I'll check when I get
> home.
> 
> If you have some other reason for separating /boot from /, explain your 
> actual
> goal, and perhaps we can help.
> 
> - Bob
> 
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