From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 7 21: 3:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from orion.ac.hmc.edu (Orion.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF72037B832 for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2000 21:03:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brdavis@orion.ac.hmc.edu) Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by orion.ac.hmc.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA19210 for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 7 Mar 2000 21:03:13 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 21:03:13 -0800 From: Brooks Davis To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sysinstall 'A'uto partitioning Message-ID: <20000307210313.A14041@orion.ac.hmc.edu> References: <8a49s1$gdo$1@atlantis.rz.tu-clausthal.de> <200003080306.EAA99235@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre4i In-Reply-To: <200003080306.EAA99235@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>; from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de on Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 04:06:24AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 04:06:24AM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: > Luke Hollins 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. I disagree. It would be true if people only processed text documents and sent e-mail through /var/spool, but today there are office suites to contend with. A 20Mbyte print job is not all that unreasionable for a large Powerpoint presentation, especialy if it has a background image. I once printed one that was averaging about 1MB per page and was nearly 30 pages long. It's even worse if you have to rasterize the thing localy with ghostscript. A full page 600dpi image is freaking huge. We've got a native office suite now, it would be nice it it worked well by default. (While I'm at it, the default print spool file size limit, 1MB, is rediculous.) -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message