Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 02:58:42 -0700 From: Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> To: Emanuel Strobl <Emanuel.strobl@gmx.net> Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf kern.post.mk Message-ID: <43255152.3000609@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200509110310.36423@harrymail> References: <20050911002229.51F4916A471@hub.freebsd.org> <432382BC.5080105@root.org> <200509110310.36423@harrymail>
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Emanuel Strobl wrote: > Hmm, why was default size of root changed to 500M? Because I was increasing the sizes of /tmp and /var at the same time; because I know that some users do somehow manage to fill up /; and because re@ told me to. :-) I still have a 128MB / on most of my systems. > Incredable much too much > IMHO, if not reserved for debug kernels.... > I've just been wondering today how wasteful FreeBSD uses the hard disk > these days (BETA4)... You'll only get a 500MB / if you have more than 10GB of space on your hard disk. I don't think that going from 2.5% of the disk up to 5% of the disk is problematically wasteful, particularly since we're only talking about the _default_ value and it's very easy to change in sysinstall. Colin Percival
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