From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 29 06:24:00 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA8D416A420 for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 06:24:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd4mo1so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 779BE43D8E for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 06:23:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd2mr7so.prod.shaw.ca (pd2mr7so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.10]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0ILZ00IUQ0ERVF90@l-daemon> for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 00:23:15 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml4so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.148]) by pd2mr7so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0ILZ003YL0ER1CI0@pd2mr7so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 00:23:15 -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 <0ILZ00M020EMWH@l-daemon> for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 00:23:15 -0600 (MDT) Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 23:23:09 -0700 From: Colin Percival In-reply-to: <200508290213.12978.dinom@balstonresearch.com> To: "C. Michailidis" Message-id: <4312A9CD.8040008@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: <200508282330.09302.dinom@balstonresearch.com> <20050829033739.GV26920@bunrab.catwhisker.org> <200508290213.12978.dinom@balstonresearch.com> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050724) Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sysinstall automatic filesystem size generation. X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 06:24:00 -0000 C. Michailidis wrote: > Remember, I'm talking about the 'path of least resistance', I understand that > I could label the slice manually with any number of different configurations. > The issue I was hoping to shed some light on is... "Can the auto-configuration > mechanism stand to be improved?". Is it reasonable (in today's era of dirt cheap > disk space) to have a mere 256MB allocated to /tmp (or /var or even /) by > default? The default sizes are now currently 512 MB for / and /tmp, and 1024 MB plus space for one crashdump on /var. If anything, these are vast overkill for most systems; on /, for example, it is hard to imagine a situation where a normal user would use more than 150MB of space unless they were doing something which they shouldn't be doing. Colin Percival