From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 8 6: 4:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (zippy.cdrom.com [204.216.27.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C14837B82F for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 06:04:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id GAA16753; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 06:03:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) To: Garance A Drosihn Cc: "Koster, K.J." , "'Edward Gold'" , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sysinstall 'A'uto partitioning In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 08 Mar 2000 08:51:59 EST." Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 06:03:06 -0800 Message-ID: <16745.952524186@zippy.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > The first time I installed freebsd, I picked numbers that were > a little larger than the defaults for '/' and '/var', and still > found myself needing to redo the entire installation in less > than a week because /var was too small. That was fine enough And as you've seen by subsequent discussion, it's impossible to derive a "one size fits all" solution for something like /var. I would expect this to come out of the "I know where you want it, now what kind of install will this be?" question which the newbie installer gets to answer second. If they pick "mail server" from the menu then /var will get a totally different ratio % assigned to it. If they pick "personal workstation" then 20MB is, if anything, perhaps a little high. > Or are you saying that the newbie option would just use the > entire disk as one partition (the way that MacOS 10 server > does...)? No, that's evil for a lot of reasons which I won't go into here. :) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message