Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 12:58:20 +0000 From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org> To: David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf kern.post.mk Message-ID: <20050913125820.GA10663@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20050912165518.GA94181@dragon.NUXI.org> References: <20050911002229.51F4916A471@hub.freebsd.org> <432382BC.5080105@root.org> <200509110310.36423@harrymail> <43255152.3000609@freebsd.org> <20050912165518.GA94181@dragon.NUXI.org>
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On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 09:55:18AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 02:58:42AM -0700, Colin Percival wrote: > > Emanuel Strobl wrote: > > > Hmm, why was default size of root changed to 500M? > > > > Because I was increasing the sizes of /tmp and /var at the same time; because > > I know that some users do somehow manage to fill up /; and because re@ told > > me to. :-) > > Perhaps we should follow what SGI and Sun has done for years on its > workstations: a combined / + /var + /usr. We would make it 15GB and be > done with it. My laptop has a combined /+/var+/usr of 12GB and I have > multiple kernels installed and room in swap for a crashdump. AFAIK, we still do not turn softupdates on /, but do on other partitions. With your proposed idea, softupdates should be on on /. How safe is this today? ./danfe
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