From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Dec 7 21:11:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B75437B417 for ; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 21:11:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA01845; Sat, 8 Dec 2001 00:11:35 -0500 (EST) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.3/8.9.1) id fB85BA104147; Sat, 8 Dec 2001 00:11:10 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15377.41198.83638.460387@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2001 00:11:10 -0500 (EST) To: Matthew Dillon Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proposed auto-sizing patch to sysinstall (was Re: Using a larger block size on large filesystems) In-Reply-To: <200112080349.fB83nWU00292@apollo.backplane.com> References: <31807.1007732134@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> <200112072257.fB7MvjE95211@apollo.backplane.com> <200112072311.fB7NB2723789@whizzo.transsys.com> <200112080349.fB83nWU00292@apollo.backplane.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matthew Dillon writes: <..> Nice. I like it except for the size of /var: > /var 128M - lets discuss this. I would actually like to make > /var larger if the disk itself is huge, because the mail > boxes and spool is on /var. Let's not forget /var/crash. I always make var at least twice as large as the physical memory in the box, plus some slop, so I have enough room to hold 2 crashdumps. Cheers, Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message