From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 12 09:58:45 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74A5D16A41F; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 09:58:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd2mo1so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13B2F43D49; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 09:58:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd4mr8so.prod.shaw.ca (pd4mr8so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.101]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IMP00F6H7PVVZ40@l-daemon>; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 03:58:43 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml10so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.80]) by pd4mr8so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IMP00BTJ7PV8R40@pd4mr8so.prod.shaw.ca>; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 03:58:43 -0600 (MDT) Received: from [192.168.0.60] (S0106006067227a4a.vc.shawcable.net [24.87.209.6]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.18 (built Jul 28 2003)) with ESMTP id <0IMP0070K7PVZE@l-daemon>; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 03:58:43 -0600 (MDT) Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 02:58:42 -0700 From: Colin Percival In-reply-to: <200509110310.36423@harrymail> To: Emanuel Strobl Message-id: <43255152.3000609@freebsd.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en-us, en X-Enigmail-Version: 0.92.0.0 References: <20050911002229.51F4916A471@hub.freebsd.org> <432382BC.5080105@root.org> <200509110310.36423@harrymail> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050724) Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf kern.post.mk X-BeenThere: cvs-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the entire tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 09:58:45 -0000 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