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Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 13:38:44 -0800 (PST)
From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: Proposed auto-sizing patch to sysinstall (was Re: Using a la
Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG,
	Kirk McKusick <mckusick@beastie.mckusick.com>,
	Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>,
	"Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM>,
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On 08-Dec-01 Jordan Hubbard wrote:
>>     Ok, I've finally gone and done it... cleaned up the sysinstall
>>     'Auto' option.
> 
> OK, I have the following concerns with this:

<much content snipped>

I agree with Jordan here, different machines use different layouts.  Personally
I like having a large /usr since I usually end up really hurting myself by
trying to split it up into /usr and /v (where /v has /v/home).  The problem
usually being that I end up with too partitions both of which are just too
small to build a release on, for example.  The other really big problem is that
new users don't know what they need for a given machine, so having a 'mail
server', 'desktop', etc. option in sysinstall to help with layout would go a
long way to actually making FreeBSD user to non-uber-hackers.

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John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
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