Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 11:24:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: labrinop@pop.vaniercollege.qc.ca Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: re: Minimum Req Disk Space Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980625112357.1471c-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199806250029.UAA22397@pteradactyl>
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On Wed, 24 Jun 1998 labrinop@pop.vaniercollege.qc.ca wrote: > On Wed, 24 Jun 1998 Jeremy Shaffner wrote: > > > Now..my question is: Why does one say 60 and one say 80? > > A few weeks ago i was curious how the 'Auto Defaults for all' > option in /stand/sysinstall disklabel assigned the partition sizes. > So i looked at the sysinstall source code and noticed the following > minimums for the filesystem: > > root_minimum = 20 MB > swap_minimum = 16 MB > usr_minimum = 80 MB > var_minimum = 30 MB > > for a total of 146 MB, since the /usr filesystem gets all the > remaining diskspace it will complain if < 80 MB is available for it. Less than this and it's too fragmenting to use multiple FSs. You might as well have one big root, aka Greg Lehey's monolithic filesystem model. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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