From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 25 20:32:06 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93B54106568E for ; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:32:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nick-lists@netability.ie) Received: from mail.acquirer.com (mail.acquirer.com [87.198.142.193]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A2A78FC1D for ; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:32:05 +0000 (UTC) X-Envelope-To: Received: from crumpet.foobar.org (twinkie.foobar.org [87.192.56.84]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.acquirer.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n7PKEAh9004384 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:14:15 +0100 (IST) (envelope-from nick-lists@netability.ie) Message-ID: <4A944612.6010107@netability.ie> Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:14:10 +0100 From: Nick Hilliard User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3pre) Gecko/20090823 Shredder/3.0b4pre MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <4A94382A.5080708@stillbilde.net> In-Reply-To: <4A94382A.5080708@stillbilde.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.5 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on muffin.acquirer.com Subject: Re: Our old friend, the small default layout is back... X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:32:06 -0000 On 25/08/2009 20:14, Svein Skogen (listmail account) wrote: > Just finished setting up a RELENG_8 box (using install media from BETA2). > > Seems our old friend the too small root partition (by default) for x64 > is back. Should this be fixed before the RC, so users applying > buildworld->buildkernel->installkernel->installworld doesn't get tossed > out of their cycle by an out-of-space error? Disk space is dirt cheap. Please someone just bump this up to 1G so that the problem goes away for a long time. Pro: disk space costs around 10c-15c per gigabyte these days. It is worth investing 10 or even 15 cents worth of disk space now in order to save the freebsd user base from pointless hair-pulling and teeth-gnashing in the future. Con: there is still probably a miniscule number of people installing freebsd on ancient equipment with 20G hard disks; in this case, you could argue that 1G is a substantial amount of space. On the other hand, anyone installing freebsd8 on ancient iron is probably familiar enough with the installation procedure to notice and change this default on their own system. Nick