Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:19:02 +1100 From: Lawrence Stewart <lstewart@freebsd.org> To: Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org> Cc: Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@crodrigues.org>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, Sean Bruno <sean.bruno@dsl-only.net> Subject: Re: Default FS Layout Too Small? Message-ID: <49A4B8A6.80303@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <49A458BF.8090603@freebsd.org> References: <1235502625.4345.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20090224192950.GA93786@crodrigues.org> <49A458BF.8090603@freebsd.org>
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Tim Kientzle wrote: > Craig Rodrigues wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 11:10:25AM -0800, Sean Bruno wrote: >> >>> I would assume that the default would be much larger now-a-days. I think >>> a simple doubling to 1G would be sufficient. >> >> Is there any point these days to having sysinstall auto-default to >> creating >> separate slices for /tmp, /var/, /usr........ >> when setting up new systems, I've started just ignoring the sysinstall >> auto-defaults and making one big / partition >> and installing FreeBSD there.... >> >> It seems every release we need to keep bumping up the size of >> the sysinstall auto-defaults because they are too small. >> >> This bites new users. > > I agree. The "one big /" style of partitioning seems a > much more reasonable default for most desktop/laptop users > these days. For server users, the separate /tmp and /var > are pretty critical, though I doubt those folks are using > the "A"uto layout very much, so changing the "A"uto layout > to just allocate / and swap would seem to make sense. When I last played around with having 1 large partition in the 6.1 days, it didn't actually work consistently. From memory the issue is that if the boot filesystem (which was on the large root partition) extended past a particular combination of cyl/head/sector, the machine would crash in the boot stage. With a 20GB disk it was fine, but a 40GB disk would trigger the crash. This may have been fixed since then, but it would be worth doing some testing on a range of hardware before we could recommend it as an option. Cheers, Lawrence
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