Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:55:35 +0100 From: Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org> To: Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@crodrigues.org> Cc: Sean Bruno <sean.bruno@dsl-only.net>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Default FS Layout Too Small? Message-ID: <20090227095535.GA86019@ei.bzerk.org> In-Reply-To: <20090224192950.GA93786@crodrigues.org> References: <1235502625.4345.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20090224192950.GA93786@crodrigues.org>
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On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 07:29:50PM +0000, Craig Rodrigues typed: > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 11:10:25AM -0800, Sean Bruno wrote: > > I would assume that the default would be much larger now-a-days. I think > > a simple doubling to 1G would be sufficient. > > Is there any point these days to having sysinstall auto-default to creating > separate slices for /tmp, /var/, /usr........ > when setting up new systems, I've started just ignoring > the sysinstall auto-defaults and making one big / partition > and installing FreeBSD there.... > > It seems every release we need to keep bumping up the size of > the sysinstall auto-defaults because they are too small. > > This bites new users. How could changing the defaults bite new users who are by definition not used to any defaults yet?
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