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Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 11:24:46 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: labrinop@pop.vaniercollege.qc.ca
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Subject: re: Minimum Req Disk Space
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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


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