Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 10:47:46 +0100 From: Gunther Nikl <gni@gecko.de> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unfortunate dynamic linking for everything Message-ID: <20031119094746.GA84418@lorien.int.gecko.de> In-Reply-To: <200311190226.hAJ2QLtT096067@apollo.backplane.com> References: <200311182307.hAIN7Wpm000717@dyson.jdyson.com> <20031118164905.R35009@pooker.samsco.home> <200311190226.hAJ2QLtT096067@apollo.backplane.com>
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On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 06:26:21PM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote:
>
> :Our rationale for encouraging Gordon is as follows:
> :
> :1. 4.x upgrade path: As we approach 5-STABLE, a lot of users might want
> : to upgrade from 4-STABLE. Historically in 4.x, the / partition has
> : been very modest in size. One just simply cannot cram the bloat that
> : has grown in 5.x into a 4.x partition scheme. Of course there is the
> : venerable 'dump - clean install - restore' scheme, but we were looking
> : for something a little more user-friendly.
>
> This argument would apply to very old 4.x users but not to anyone who
> installed it as of March 2001. I bumped the nominal size of the
> root partition to 128MB in 1.98.2.7 of sysinstall/label.c.
Don't you think that people are able to change defaults if they think
thats appropriate?
> Prior to that Jordan had bumped the root partition size to 100MB
> in 1.98.2.3 in March 2001. It was 50MB before then, which is too
> small even for 4.x.
Hm, then why do I have still room on my 50MB root partition?
$ df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/vinum/root 49583 29040 16577 64% /
Thats enough for installworld (if softupdates are turned off)
Gunther
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