From owner-freebsd-arch Sat Dec 8 12:44:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (mass.dis.org [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C72537B417; Sat, 8 Dec 2001 12:44:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.6/8.11.3) with ESMTP id fB8Ko1T01347; Sat, 8 Dec 2001 12:50:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200112082050.fB8Ko1T01347@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Marko Zec , "Louis A. Mamakos" , Matthew Dillon , Sheldon Hearn , freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Using a larger block size on large filesystems In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 08 Dec 2001 10:26:58 PST." <20011208102658.B11428@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2001 12:50:01 -0800 From: Mike Smith 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 > > 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. PERSONALLY, I disagree. 1.5GB is too small these days; 2GB is a better choice. 8) Then again, I work for a company that puts everything in /System/Library, so I guess I should be quiet now. 8) -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message