Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2001 21:04:57 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely8.cicely.de> Cc: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.freebsd.org>, Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM>, Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>, Kirk McKusick <mckusick@beastie.mckusick.com>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proposed auto-sizing patch to sysinstall (was Re: Using a larger block size on large filesystems) Message-ID: <20011208210457.C332@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <20011209013340.D6171@cicely8.cicely.de>; from ticso@cicely8.cicely.de on Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 01:33:40AM %2B0100 References: <49294.1007846108@winston.freebsd.org> <200112082211.fB8MBGm18685@apollo.backplane.com> <20011209013340.D6171@cicely8.cicely.de>
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On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 01:33:40AM +0100, Bernd Walter wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 02:11:16PM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> > Hmm. Well, I have to disagree somewhat. 'A'uto isn't useful if
> > the user has to think too much about it, and there is nothing
> > preventing the user from deleting the partitions he doesn't want.
> > /var/tmp and /home are fairly standard partition names... nothing
> > new in my book. I certainly didn't invent them! In particular,
> > these two partitions greatly increase the safety of the system... I
> > can't count the number of times I've seen fsck *fail* on /var/tmp
> > after a crash and was thankful that /var/tmp wasn't on /var.
>
> I hate if Software writes on /var/tmp instead of /tmp.
Then rewrite
/usr/include/paths.h:#define _PATH_VARTMP "/var/tmp/"
/usr/include/stdio.h:#define P_tmpdir "/var/tmp/"
the software is just obeying what we told it.
> The traditional directory is /var/users but I prefer /var/home.
Not for *ages* (if ever). Where have you seen this?
> If you don't want a separate /home partition /var/users is the better
> choice.
> /home is the place for system wide home directories which are usualy
> non-local - therefor no need for a local partition.
/home has become *The* standard place for one's home dir.
Be it local or NFS. Matt is doing the right thing here.
If you have an NFS mounted /home, then you can either not use (A)uto, or
tweak the result of (A)uto before continuing with the installation.
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