From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 29 06:39:15 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 98E9E16A41F; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 06:39:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jd@ugcs.caltech.edu) Received: from riyal.ugcs.caltech.edu (riyal.ugcs.caltech.edu [131.215.176.123]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8C6843D4C; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 06:39:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jd@ugcs.caltech.edu) Received: by riyal.ugcs.caltech.edu (Postfix, from userid 3640) id BE67A45804; Sun, 28 Aug 2005 23:39:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by riyal.ugcs.caltech.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 489A545802; Sun, 28 Aug 2005 23:39:13 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 23:39:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Jon Dama To: Colin Percival In-Reply-To: <4312A9CD.8040008@freebsd.org> Message-ID: References: <200508282330.09302.dinom@balstonresearch.com> <20050829033739.GV26920@bunrab.catwhisker.org> <200508290213.12978.dinom@balstonresearch.com> <4312A9CD.8040008@freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, "C. Michailidis" 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 06:39:15 -0000 yes, that's quite generous. why isn't /tmp just an mfs mount though? On Sun, 28 Aug 2005, Colin Percival wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >