From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Apr 20 21:13:28 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA13603 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 20 Apr 1997 21:13:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from aries.bb.cc.wa.us (root@[208.8.136.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA13594 for ; Sun, 20 Apr 1997 21:13:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (chris@localhost) by aries.bb.cc.wa.us (8.8.3/8.6.9) with SMTP id VAA17985; Sun, 20 Apr 1997 21:10:20 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 21:10:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Chris Coleman To: Warner Losh cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disklabel -- owner? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > However, I want to have something that looks like > > o root needs to be at least 20M, but no larger than 32M and > about 2% of the whole disk. > o /usr should be about 20% of the disk, not smaller than 100M > or larger than 350M. > o /var should be 20% of the disk. Add extra inodes here. > o /home should eat the rest of the disk (ala the SunOS 'hog' > parititon). > But table driven so that others can have other rules of thumb. The > above, btw, are bogus for many reasons. They are just an example of > the ideas I'd like to have. I have installed several machines, and usually use the defaults in the sysinstall for desk top machines, but when I install for a server, I find that I need a much bigger /var/mail and /var/log partition Also I tend to need a slightly bigger / partition to do kernel development and handle the default /tmp directory. Maybe this should go in Sysinstall also, but I thought it would be a good idea to have a couple of models to choose from, such as "desktop", "laptop", "Net Server", "router". Things like this that might have different algorithms depending on the overall size of disks they have dedicated to FreeBSD. Just a thought :-) Thanks, I am looking forward to seeing this part more user friendly. Christopher J. Coleman (chris@aries.bb.cc.wa.us) Computer Support Technician I (509)-766-8873 Big Bend Community College Internet Instructor FreeBSD Book Project: http://vinyl.quickweb.com/~chrisc/book.html Disclaimer: Even Though it has My Name on it, Doesn't mean I said it.