From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 7 21:14:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [216.240.41.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F05EA37B5AA for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2000 21:14:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id VAA60513; Tue, 7 Mar 2000 21:14:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 21:14:34 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <200003080514.VAA60513@apollo.backplane.com> To: Brooks Davis Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sysinstall 'A'uto partitioning References: <8a49s1$gdo$1@atlantis.rz.tu-clausthal.de> <200003080306.EAA99235@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> <20000307210313.A14041@orion.ac.hmc.edu> 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 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message