From owner-freebsd-arch Sat Dec 8 10:27:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.92.13.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1065037B41B for ; Sat, 8 Dec 2001 10:27:28 -0800 (PST) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.6/8.11.1) id fB8IQwP11534; Sat, 8 Dec 2001 10:26:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2001 10:26:58 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Marko Zec Cc: "Louis A. Mamakos" , Matthew Dillon , Sheldon Hearn , freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Using a larger block size on large filesystems Message-ID: <20011208102658.B11428@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: arch@FreeBSD.ORG References: <31807.1007732134@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> <200112072257.fB7MvjE95211@apollo.backplane.com> <200112072311.fB7NB2723789@whizzo.transsys.com> <3C114FDF.138E09A7@tel.fer.hr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3C114FDF.138E09A7@tel.fer.hr>; from zec@tel.fer.hr on Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 12:25:19AM +0100 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 12:25:19AM +0100, Marko Zec wrote: > > for today's disks? I think that if we're installing on a multi-gigabyte > > disk, a 200MB root file system isn't imposing very much. > > Why would we want to do that? Putting unnecessary things on / is always a > bad idea, as root partition should remain small and as free of frequent RW > operations as possible. That is a *PERSONAL* opinion, so please mark it as such. I personally use 1.5GB / partitions. I _personally_ see zero reason for a /usr partition. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message