From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Nov 4 5:25:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from point.osg.gov.bc.ca (point.osg.gov.bc.ca [142.32.102.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1296637B409 for ; Sun, 4 Nov 2001 05:25:24 -0800 (PST) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by point.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.8.7/8.8.8) id FAA17391; Sun, 4 Nov 2001 05:25:15 -0800 Received: from passer.osg.gov.bc.ca(142.32.110.29) via SMTP by point.osg.gov.bc.ca, id smtpda17389; Sun Nov 4 05:24:57 2001 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by passer.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.11.6/8.9.1) id fA4DOuK05193; Sun, 4 Nov 2001 05:24:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from UNKNOWN(10.1.2.1), claiming to be "cwsys.cwsent.com" via SMTP by passer9.cwsent.com, id smtpdET5191; Sun Nov 4 05:24:43 2001 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by cwsys.cwsent.com (8.11.6/8.9.1) id fA4DOfK68347; Sun, 4 Nov 2001 05:24:41 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200111041324.fA4DOfK68347@cwsys.cwsent.com> Received: from localhost.cwsent.com(127.0.0.1), claiming to be "cwsys" via SMTP by localhost.cwsent.com, id smtpdT68343; Sun Nov 4 05:24:26 2001 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 Reply-To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group X-Sender: schubert To: Jochem Kossen Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysinstall/disklabel and auto-default values for partition sizes In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 03 Nov 2001 23:31:26 +0100." <20011103233126.A1099@jochem.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2001 05:24:26 -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20011103233126.A1099@jochem.dyndns.org>, Jochem Kossen writes: > Hello, > > Sysinstall(disklabel) still chooses a size of 20 MB for the /var > partition. This is, in my opinion, way too small since the installing of > packages uses /var/tmp (maybe adding a separate /var/tmp partition to > the defaults would be interesting?). > > I've mentioned this also before the 4.4-RELEASE, but then there was too > little time to change it, and i just took a look at -STABLE, and it > isn't fixed there yet... > > Hereby, again the suggestion to re-evaluate those values. > > Also, maybe it's nice to have just one /tmp or /var/tmp partition as > explained in the tuning(7) manpage? What tuning says about syminking /var/tmp to /tmp is confusing. Initially it says that /tmp should be symlinked to /var/tmp, then it talks about dedicating a partition for temporary storage which will have the advantages of not blowing up critical system such as mail, logging, etc. You cannot have a dedicated temporary file partition which protects mail, logging, etc. from temporary file blow up with /tmp symlinked to /var/tmp. Tuning(7) should initially say that /var/tmp should be symlinked to /tmp. This would be the correct recommendation and it would be consistent with the rest of the discussion about /tmp and /var/tmp. Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 Team Leader, Sun/Alpha Team Internet: Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca Open Systems Group, ITSD Ministry of Management Services Province of BC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message