From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 13 15:29:40 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1347216A41F; Tue, 13 Sep 2005 15:29:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from marcel@xcllnt.net) Received: from ns1.xcllnt.net (209-128-86-226.BAYAREA.NET [209.128.86.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B459143D45; Tue, 13 Sep 2005 15:29:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from marcel@xcllnt.net) Received: from [192.168.4.250] (dhcp50.pn.xcllnt.net [192.168.4.250]) by ns1.xcllnt.net (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j8DFTcOJ085202; Tue, 13 Sep 2005 08:29:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcel@xcllnt.net) In-Reply-To: <20050913125820.GA10663@FreeBSD.org> References: <20050911002229.51F4916A471@hub.freebsd.org> <432382BC.5080105@root.org> <200509110310.36423@harrymail> <43255152.3000609@freebsd.org> <20050912165518.GA94181@dragon.NUXI.org> <20050913125820.GA10663@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v734) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Marcel Moolenaar Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 08:29:38 -0700 To: Alexey Dokuchaev X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.734) Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, David O'Brien Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf kern.post.mk X-BeenThere: cvs-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the entire tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 15:29:40 -0000 On Sep 13, 2005, at 5:58 AM, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > 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? I never use separate partitions for /usr and /var on my scratch boxes and I always enable SU on /. I can't say I've ever had any problems. -- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net