Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 21:03:13 -0800 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sysinstall 'A'uto partitioning Message-ID: <20000307210313.A14041@orion.ac.hmc.edu> 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 %2B0100 References: <8a49s1$gdo$1@atlantis.rz.tu-clausthal.de> <200003080306.EAA99235@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
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On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 04:06:24AM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: > 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. 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
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