Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:52:28 +0100 (CET) From: "Remko Lodder" <remko@elvandar.org> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Partition Layout in the Handbook Message-ID: <24171.194.74.82.3.1200556348.squirrel@galain.elvandar.org> In-Reply-To: <20080117074631.GJ29976@draenor.org> References: <20080117074631.GJ29976@draenor.org>
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On Thu, January 17, 2008 8:46 am, Marc Silver wrote: > Hey guys, > > I noticed that section 2.6.5 of the handbook talks about the partition > layout of a new FreeBSD installation. The handbook lists the default > partition sizes as being: > > 128MB for / > 256MB for /var > > However, a quick look in /usr/src/usr/sbin/sysinstall/label.c shows that > the default sizes used now are: > > 512MB for / > 1GB for /var > > These sizes are used assuming the disk is big enough. My question... > should the handbook be updated with this information? If so I'd like to > work up a patch (complete with new screenshots etc.) to correct this > information. > > Thanks in advance, > Marc > Hey Marc, I think we should do that, more and more disks become sufficiently large to do this, but if we can include a note: "For systems with less then X of diskspace, the following values will be used: <list>" :-) thanks for the willingness to work on this! -- /"\ Best regards, | remko@FreeBSD.org \ / Remko Lodder | remko@EFnet X http://www.evilcoder.org/ | / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML Mail and News
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