From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 7 18:33:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from fb00.eng00.mindspring.net (fb00.eng00.mindspring.net [207.69.200.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 646EE37B88D for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2000 18:33:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from edgold@mindspring.com) Received: from mindspring.com (user-37kau0a.dialup.mindspring.com [207.69.120.10]) by fb00.eng00.mindspring.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA06898 for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2000 21:33:37 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <38C5BAD7.7AA9E6A3@mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 21:28:40 -0500 From: Edward Gold X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sysinstall 'A'uto partitioning References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Walker wrote: > > I was using sysinstall the other day and hit Auto defaults just to see > > what it suggested, and got this on a 20GB disk: > > wd0s1a / 50MB UFS Y > > wd0s1b swap 651MB SWAP > > wd0s1e /var 20MB UFS Y > > wd0s1f /usr 18849MB UFS Y > > > > the /var one struck me as really bad just thought i would mention it > > How about adding a /usr/local for bigger disks to break up dumps? > amanda only supports dumping to one tape. So using dump on > filesystems over 7/14G can cause problems. Not everyone has 20/40 > plus tapes and images don't compress much. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message I was actually planning a near-complete rewrite of sysinstall anyway! How about everyone throwing in whatever suggestions you would like ( about anything regarding sysinstall ), and I will try to incorporate them!? The things I am specifically going to focus on are: 1. depretzel the GUI from the logic and modularize. 2. implement scripting capability so we can control the user's path through the various menus from a script file of sorts. 3. possibly make stand alone post-install GUI based utilities for fdisk/disklabel and other configuration functions. Ed To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message