From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 7 19: 6:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.243.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1459137B5D6 for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2000 19:06:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id EAA99235; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 04:06:24 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olli) Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 04:06:24 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <200003080306.EAA99235@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sysinstall 'A'uto partitioning X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-hackers In-Reply-To: <8a49s1$gdo$1@atlantis.rz.tu-clausthal.de> User-Agent: tin/1.4.1-19991201 ("Polish") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/3.4-19991219-STABLE (i386)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Luke Hollins wrote in list.freebsd-hackers: > 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 I think 20 Mbyte is perfectly OK. More than that would be a waste of diskspace on a workstation. And if you're installing a server, you probably don't use the "A"uto defaults anyway. IMO one shouldn't try to put too much pseudo intelligence into that auto partitioning. Or if you do, then do it _right_ and let the user choose between auto defaults for a workstation, for a user shell box, for a small webserver, for a big web- server, for a newsserver, and while we're at it, configure an appropriately sized MFS for /tmp, etc. ... This is a can of worms. Bottom line: I think it should stay the way it is now. :-) Just my 0.02 Euro. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" (Terry Pratchett) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message