From owner-freebsd-current Tue Oct 29 18:17:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8513737B401; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 18:17:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from ion.gank.org (ion.gank.org [198.78.66.164]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2795343E6E; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 18:17:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from craig@gjgth.gank.org) Received: from darth-laptop.auir.gank.org (dsl081-113-221.dfw1.dsl.speakeasy.net [64.81.113.221]) by ion.gank.org (GankMail) with ESMTP id 10C6E2BF12; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 20:15:58 -0600 (CST) Subject: Re: Large 'label'ing defaults for sysinstall From: Craig Boston To: John De Boskey Cc: Current List In-Reply-To: <20021028063937.GA37379@BSDWins.Com> References: <20021028063937.GA37379@BSDWins.Com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 Date: 29 Oct 2002 20:15:54 -0600 Message-Id: <1035944160.700.19.camel@darth-laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > In this day of larger disk drives, I've modified > the code in sysinstall to automatically create a /home > partition and increase the rest of the sizes if the > size of the disk (or slice) exceeds a given size (currently > 58gig in my patch). For example, using A(uto in the label > editor on a 100gig drive now gives: I thought FreeBSD traditionally used /usr/home for home directories with /home being a symlink...? Has this changed? IIRC, one of the reasons/benefits was to discourage the bigass-root-partition-with-everything-on-it approach. Craig To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message