From owner-freebsd-arch Sat Dec 8 17: 2:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (rwcrmhc53.attbi.com [204.127.198.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBB2E37B41B; Sat, 8 Dec 2001 17:02:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from peter3.wemm.org ([12.232.27.13]) by rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20011209010212.KSBF24045.rwcrmhc53.attbi.com@peter3.wemm.org>; Sun, 9 Dec 2001 01:02:12 +0000 Received: from overcee.netplex.com.au (overcee.wemm.org [10.0.0.3]) by peter3.wemm.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id fB912Cs28219; Sat, 8 Dec 2001 17:02:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.netplex.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 174073810; Sat, 8 Dec 2001 17:02:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Mike Smith Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG, Marko Zec , "Louis A. Mamakos" , Matthew Dillon , Sheldon Hearn , freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Using a larger block size on large filesystems In-Reply-To: <200112082050.fB8Ko1T01347@mass.dis.org> Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2001 17:02:12 -0800 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20011209010212.174073810@overcee.netplex.com.au> 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 Mike Smith wrote: > > > Why would we want to do that? Putting unnecessary things on / is always a > > > bad idea, as root partition should remain small and as free of frequent R W > > > operations as possible. > > > > That is a *PERSONAL* opinion, so please mark it as such. I personally > > use 1.5GB / partitions. I _personally_ see zero reason for a /usr > > partition. > > PERSONALLY, I disagree. 1.5GB is too small these days; 2GB is a better > choice. 8) Heh, what sort of crud do you put in /usr/local? :-) I usually use 512M for /usr, and sometimes 1G if the machine is going to run X. But I dont put src, obj or ports in there. /usr/obj has no business being in /usr in the first place IMHO. I symlink /usr/obj, /usr/src, /usr/ports and /var/ crash to /home/$dirname. But then again, I usually dont use sysinstall at all for installing new systems at home. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message