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You can make a good case that /usr/local should be separate from /usr, where as /usr belongs on the same partition/slice as / on FreeBSD. /usr is the whole syst
by mhurron 15y ago
You can make a good case that /usr/local should be separate from /usr, where as /usr belongs on the same partition/slice as / on FreeBSD. /usr is the whole system as maintained by FreeBSD, where as /usr/local is where your ports are installed. /usr is going to grow slowly, /usr/local could get huge. Separate /usr/local out from /usr on a different disk.
FreeBSD recommends softupdates on all filesystems, including /.
Also, the LSB doesn't really apply much to the BSD's.
- X-Istence 15y agoThe defaults for FreeBSD are / as UFS2 with no softupdates, see picture 2-19 in http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-steps.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/in... for an example.
- mhurron 15y agoIt has been a few months since I had to administer a FreeBSD machine, but personally since at least FreeBSD 7 I have had softupdates on on /. The installer may still not have softupdates on, but the installer is very very conservative about defaults, and probably hasn't changed since, well ever. However, from the handbook http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/faq/disks.html#SAFE-SOFTUPDATES http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/faq/disks.html#SAFE-SOFT... "9.4. Which partitions can safely use Soft Updates? I have heard that Soft Updates on / can cause problems. Short answer: you can usually use Soft Updates safely on all partitions. Long answer: There used to be some concern over using Soft Updates on the root partition. ..."