From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 17 07:52:30 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EE6816A46D for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 07:52:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from remko@elvandar.org) Received: from galain.elvandar.org (galain.elvandar.org [217.148.169.56]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C867F13C4E7 for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 07:52:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from remko@elvandar.org) Received: from localhost.we-dare.net ([127.0.0.1] helo=galain.elvandar.org) by galain.elvandar.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JFPY4-00060d-Qk for freebsd-doc@freebsd.org; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:52:28 +0100 Received: from 194.74.82.3 (SquirrelMail authenticated user remko) by galain.elvandar.org with HTTP; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:52:28 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <24171.194.74.82.3.1200556348.squirrel@galain.elvandar.org> In-Reply-To: <20080117074631.GJ29976@draenor.org> References: <20080117074631.GJ29976@draenor.org> Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:52:28 +0100 (CET) From: "Remko Lodder" To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.13 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Subject: Re: Partition Layout in the Handbook X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: remko@elvandar.org List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 07:52:30 -0000 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: " :-) 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