From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Dec 9 1: 2:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from winston.freebsd.org (adsl-64-173-15-98.dsl.sntc01.pacbell.net [64.173.15.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 723AB37B41B for ; Sun, 9 Dec 2001 01:02:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from winston.freebsd.org (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by winston.freebsd.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fB9926q50929; Sun, 9 Dec 2001 01:02:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@winston.freebsd.org) To: Bernd Walter Cc: Matthew Dillon , Garance A Drosihn , "Louis A. Mamakos" , Sheldon Hearn , Kirk McKusick , freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proposed auto-sizing patch to sysinstall (was Re: Using a larger block size on large filesystems) In-Reply-To: Message from Bernd Walter of "Sun, 09 Dec 2001 01:33:40 +0100." <20011209013340.D6171@cicely8.cicely.de> Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2001 01:02:06 -0800 Message-ID: <50925.1007888526@winston.freebsd.org> From: Jordan Hubbard 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 Oh yeah, I forgot to comment on this part: In that light perhaps what we need to do is have an auto-resizing feature, so if the user deletes an auto-created partition sysinstall automatically resizes the auto-created partitions before it to fill up the space. So if the user hits 'A' and doesn't want /var/tmp, they simply delete /var/tmp and /var gets its space. And if they don't want /home they simply delete it and /usr gets its space. I think this is a much easier mechanism for the user then requiring him to select which Auto-profile to use. I think this is another good feature to add, but it's purely orthogonal to the suggestions I had. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message