From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 8 13:11:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.243.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B2B537B663 for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 13:11:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA35299; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 22:11:45 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olli) Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 22:11:45 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <200003082111.WAA35299@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sysinstall 'A'uto partitioning X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-hackers In-Reply-To: <8a4nr4$p12$1@atlantis.rz.tu-clausthal.de> User-Agent: tin/1.4.1-19991201 ("Polish") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/3.4-19991219-STABLE (i386)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matthew Dillon wrote in list.freebsd-hackers: > I'll tell ya, I *never* use the auto-defaults. Me neither. :-) > They are way too > tiny. A 50MB root barely fits the kernel and you can run it out of > space doing an installworld. I almost always do this: That's probably because you're a developper, I guess you have at least a dozen kernels lying around. ;-) 30 Mbyte for / is enough for me. BTW (replying to Jordan's statement), I agree that one big / is a Bad Thing[TM]. Usually I try to separate stuff that's often written to (/var, /home) from the static data (/, /usr). That also makes backups easier. Furthermore, it is important to separate partitions which could easily overflow (user homes, spool directories) from "critical" things. That has saved my day a few times. ;-) Well, as someone else said, you can't make it fit everybody. What I would like to see in sysinstall is an option to make /tmp an MFS. But then again, that would probably open yet another can of worms... Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" (Terry Pratchett) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message