From owner-freebsd-stable Wed May 3 21:55:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from pollo.monkeybrains.net (rururudy-0.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.57.142]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C837B37BF99 for ; Wed, 3 May 2000 21:55:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rudy@pollo.monkeybrains.net) Received: from localhost (rudy@localhost) by pollo.monkeybrains.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA09201; Wed, 3 May 2000 21:55:14 GMT (envelope-from rudy@pollo.monkeybrains.net) Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 21:55:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Rudy Rucker To: Mike Tancsa Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: size of root (was Re: Debugging Kernel....) In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20000503225125.04551218@mail.sentex.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 3 May 2000, Mike Tancsa wrote: > Perhaps its time to up the default suggested size of / ? In this day and > age of 13G IDE drives, having 150MB for root would be a more safe value no > ? On the machines I configure I generally give myself this much at least. Perhaps, the install should look at how big the drive is and adjust the defaults to fit the drive (ala the swap partitions adjustment to 2x the amount of RAM installed during configuration). I run a small ISP; here is the layout I used for a new box: / 64M /usr 3000M /var 100M /data1 1500M (mail / web logs) /data2 4000M (html documents / web content) Splitting out all the web 'data' makes chroot() for ftp work real well. 2 cents. Rudy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message