Is it appropriate to mount /var and /usr on ext2fs partition ?

RW rwmaillists at googlemail.com
Fri Jun 25 11:50:20 UTC 2010


On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 18:36:13 -0700 (PDT)
zaxis <z_axis at 163.com> wrote:


> The /dev/ad4s8 is an empty partition. Now i want to move /var
> and /usr to it. Do i need to format /dev/ad4s8 to UFS ?

I would, there are FreeBSD specific file flags, that I don't think are
supported by  ext2fs. UFS with soft-updates is going to be faster than
synchronously mounted ext2. And it's very easy to do.


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