From owner-freebsd-arch Sat Dec 8 21:43:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.123.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03E9437B416; Sat, 8 Dec 2001 21:43:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from caddis.yogotech.com (caddis.yogotech.com [206.127.123.130]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA12327; Sat, 8 Dec 2001 22:43:08 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by caddis.yogotech.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fB95h7X78658; Sat, 8 Dec 2001 22:43:07 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate) From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15378.63979.640344.655672@caddis.yogotech.com> Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2001 22:43:07 -0700 To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Nate Williams , Matthew Dillon , Jordan Hubbard , 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: <20011208210819.D332@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <49294.1007846108@winston.freebsd.org> <200112082211.fB8MBGm18685@apollo.backplane.com> <15378.46543.229258.473566@caddis.yogotech.com> <20011208210819.D332@dragon.nuxi.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.96 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) 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 > > As David and others have pointed out, they like monstrous '/' partitions > > which I shudder to think about when crashes occur. > > I've never lost my huge / on my main desktop and NFS server. > And since I run -CURRENT, I crash or deadlock weekly (since the past > year) for one reason or another. Same for my Alpha's with 1.5GB /'s (and > you've probably heard me cry how unstable they have been in 2001 also). > > I agree with you that /var/tmp seems to be too controversial. But there > does seem to be some support for a (A)uto /home, in order to allow better > sizing of /usr (and reduce the only "default" thing that causes constant > writes to /usr). My experience is that I'd rather have one humongous writable partition than lots of little partitions. I too often run out of space on the smaller partitions while still having lots of free space on the other partitions that I can't use, so I end up with lots of symlinks and copying of files to free up space as partitions slowly bloat themselves. of little partitions, and now /usr is full because it grew By using one humongous partition I avoid these kind of problems. So, I prefer a big /var vs. a separated out /var and /var/tmp. I prefer a big /usr vs. a smaller /usr and a /home. But, as stated before, this is my personal preference. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message