Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 21:14:34 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sysinstall 'A'uto partitioning Message-ID: <200003080514.VAA60513@apollo.backplane.com> References: <8a49s1$gdo$1@atlantis.rz.tu-clausthal.de> <200003080306.EAA99235@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> <20000307210313.A14041@orion.ac.hmc.edu>
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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
I'll tell ya, I *never* use the auto-defaults. They are way too
tiny. A 50MB root barely fits the kernel and you can run it out of
space doing an installworld. I almost always do this:
/ 128M
swap (double system memory at a minimum)
/var 128M
/var/tmp 128M
/usr (at least 1G)
/u1 (remainder, if it's a big disk)
/tmp softlink to /var/tmp (because having two tmp's is stupid)
/home softlink to /u1/home
If I need a big spool for mail I usually create a /var/spool
partition. Never create a /var/spool/mail or /var/spool/mqueue
partition, since a directory as a mount point cannot be easily
shrunk since you can't tar-copy/rm-rf/rename it.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon@backplane.com>
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