From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 29 03:57:35 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E04316A41F for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 03:57:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9AA743D4C for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 03:57:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.1/8.13.3) id j7T3vT4A080503; Sun, 28 Aug 2005 22:57:29 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 22:57:29 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: "C. Michailidis" Message-ID: <20050829035729.GH88693@dan.emsphone.com> References: <200508282330.09302.dinom@balstonresearch.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200508282330.09302.dinom@balstonresearch.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sysinstall automatic filesystem size generation. X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 03:57:35 -0000 In the last episode (Aug 28), C. Michailidis said: > Did you ever see a 300 lb. bodybuilder with legs like pencils? It's > pretty funny. Now imagine a 199gb /usr with a 256mb /tmp /var and /, > look similar? This issue became apparent when I attempted to > portupgrade OpenOffice and the process failed, indicating that there > wasn't enough space in /var/tmp.... I have a 60gb disk drive and my > /var and /tmp are a lousey 256mb?!?!? Ugh! Please don't jump down > my throat on this one... I know, I know... I'm stupid, yes I should > have labelled the disk by hand. I probably should have installed the > entire system by some other incredibly painstaking method too, > perhaps I should have etched the bits onto the disk with a needle, a > spool of wire, a magnet, and a 9-volt battery - IDK. For anything over a 9gb disk, I just make one big / partition. If you sub partition, you'll always end up filling one (either /var or /tmp quickly or /usr eventually) and wish you had picked different sizes. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com