From owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Wed Feb 1 09:57:04 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43D9DCCBC09 for ; Wed, 1 Feb 2017 09:57:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eekee57@fastmail.fm) Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com (out1-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 17D4F1D87 for ; Wed, 1 Feb 2017 09:57:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eekee57@fastmail.fm) Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.nyi.internal [10.202.2.41]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6151D20C86 for ; Wed, 1 Feb 2017 04:57:02 -0500 (EST) Received: from web2 ([10.202.2.212]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Wed, 01 Feb 2017 04:57:02 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=fastmail.fm; h= content-transfer-encoding:content-type:date:from:in-reply-to :message-id:mime-version:references:subject:to:x-me-sender :x-me-sender:x-sasl-enc; s=mesmtp; bh=lO4qvNFEpvkxx8mszlg/SpFTOC s=; b=KwhvdK4Ws/EXZ1yqXEG+sm+1c2uuwu4Wf90gGMJBBRnYqsa9zkPMub9G30 INDoijwrWhVg1tiXrE9NJw4g4KRFbmz+BVkyRn5xZn9AR+ToAPYdbhuy16nafAkQ 0g39eUMT7A+S3aa/wETUXs4jR0wl+tRnVwlj5pDx369zc3jls= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=content-transfer-encoding:content-type :date:from:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version:references :subject:to:x-me-sender:x-me-sender:x-sasl-enc; s=smtpout; bh=lO 4qvNFEpvkxx8mszlg/SpFTOCs=; b=EyzIFG5AiNtUTtQ2Tbtamc86IXvkgrmzJe tPGw+IXyDh6h4TAgijGVnbVy+fpWcCPiElSNXAqGAKfTQqLSPMfM3ZqZRRdL7EYq vV/xsXs7jKf6IDn0xwaYN5xeqFaVnnDHlTrPXP6mcB4PGAz+0jpHZUbvbL6POWOw NDExmYTWE= X-ME-Sender: Received: by mailuser.nyi.internal (Postfix, from userid 99) id 42FD762719; Wed, 1 Feb 2017 04:57:02 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <1485943022.2832548.866509920.1E2FDFF5@webmail.messagingengine.com> From: Ethan Grammatikidis To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" X-Mailer: MessagingEngine.com Webmail Interface - ajax-e9b51b02 Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2017 09:57:02 +0000 In-Reply-To: References: <20170129141244.GA63867@in-addr.com> <851efa44-0607-231f-0905-8f9c96a36237@ish.com.au> Subject: Re: Boot partition size X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2017 09:57:04 -0000 On Wed, Feb 1, 2017, at 08:38 AM, krad wrote: > Are we really that worried about 90-99 MB when we are talking about many TB > drives? Even the entry-mid range SSD are in the region of 256-512 GB these > days? Indeed. I've been using 100MB boot partitions for many years now, because I see no point in allocating anything less. I'm not even the type to always have the latest hardware, the last disks I bought were 720GB. 100MB is only 10% of 1GB. The first hard disk I ever bought for myself, in the 1990s, affordable when I had almost no spending money, was 4GB. -- I'm too old to use vi.