From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Apr 20 21:32:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA14522 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 20 Apr 1997 21:32:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA14513 for ; Sun, 20 Apr 1997 21:32:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rover.village.org [127.0.0.1] by rover.village.org with esmtp (Exim 1.60 #1) id 0wJAmH-0001Dy-00; Sun, 20 Apr 1997 22:32:33 -0600 Subject: Re: disklabel -- owner? To: hackers@freebsd.org In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 20 Apr 1997 21:10:20 PDT." References: Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 22:32:33 -0600 From: Warner Losh Message-Id: Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In message Chris Coleman writes: : 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. That's kinda the idea behind being able to say the things I was saying before. That way we can have pre-built rules for these things. Warner