Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 04:06:24 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sysinstall 'A'uto partitioning Message-ID: <200003080306.EAA99235@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> In-Reply-To: <8a49s1$gdo$1@atlantis.rz.tu-clausthal.de>
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Luke Hollins <lwh@pathcom.com> wrote in list.freebsd-hackers:
> I was using sysinstall the other day and hit Auto defaults just to see
> what it suggested, and got this on a 20GB disk:
> wd0s1a / 50MB UFS Y
> wd0s1b swap 651MB SWAP
> wd0s1e /var 20MB UFS Y
> wd0s1f /usr 18849MB UFS Y
>
> the /var one struck me as really bad just thought i would mention it
I think 20 Mbyte is perfectly OK. More than that would be a
waste of diskspace on a workstation. And if you're installing
a server, you probably don't use the "A"uto defaults anyway.
IMO one shouldn't try to put too much pseudo intelligence into
that auto partitioning. Or if you do, then do it _right_ and
let the user choose between auto defaults for a workstation,
for a user shell box, for a small webserver, for a big web-
server, for a newsserver, and while we're at it, configure an
appropriately sized MFS for /tmp, etc. ... This is a can of
worms.
Bottom line: I think it should stay the way it is now. :-)
Just my 0.02 Euro.
Regards
Oliver
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