From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 8 7:46: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8F2D37B5E3 for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 07:46:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (dcs@p07-dn03kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [210.232.224.136]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) with ESMTP id AAA18454; Thu, 9 Mar 2000 00:44:50 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <38C67527.263EFECC@newsguy.com> Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 00:43:35 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Garance A Drosihn , "Koster, K.J." , "'Edward Gold'" , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sysinstall 'A'uto partitioning References: <16745.952524186@zippy.cdrom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote: > > > 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. :) I don't agree... A small /, and a huge /usr, with an additional var symlink, shouldn't cause any troubles to newbies, and avoid some problems. I think that the "use all available space" option ought to do this. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org One Unix to rule them all, One Resolver to find them, One IP to bring them all and in the zone bind them. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message