From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 17 16:21:20 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA27205 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 16:21:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA27107 for ; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 16:20:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.7/8.8.5) id TAA01983; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 19:19:45 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" Message-Id: <199711180019.TAA01983@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: Partitioning suggestions? In-Reply-To: from Alfred Perlstein at "Nov 17, 97 06:32:20 pm" To: perlsta@cs.sunyit.edu (Alfred Perlstein) Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 19:19:45 -0500 (EST) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Reply-To: dyson@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Alfred Perlstein said: > i wasn't going to get into this thread, however i feel that a 32meg root > is NOT a good idea, 50megs is nice, but with 32megs i've come across > problems of filling the root partition. > I am fond of 120-200MB root partitions. Disk is cheap, and as you say, running out of root space (or any other partition) is not a fun thing. -- John dyson@freebsd.org jdyson@nc.com