Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 04:06:24 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sysinstall 'A'uto partitioning Message-ID: <200003080306.EAA99235@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> In-Reply-To: <8a49s1$gdo$1@atlantis.rz.tu-clausthal.de>
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Luke Hollins <lwh@pathcom.com> wrote in list.freebsd-hackers: > I was using sysinstall the other day and hit Auto defaults just to see > what it suggested, and got this on a 20GB disk: > wd0s1a / 50MB UFS Y > wd0s1b swap 651MB SWAP > wd0s1e /var 20MB UFS Y > wd0s1f /usr 18849MB UFS Y > > the /var one struck me as really bad just thought i would mention it I think 20 Mbyte is perfectly OK. More than that would be a waste of diskspace on a workstation. And if you're installing a server, you probably don't use the "A"uto defaults anyway. IMO one shouldn't try to put too much pseudo intelligence into that auto partitioning. Or if you do, then do it _right_ and let the user choose between auto defaults for a workstation, for a user shell box, for a small webserver, for a big web- server, for a newsserver, and while we're at it, configure an appropriately sized MFS for /tmp, etc. ... This is a can of worms. Bottom line: I think it should stay the way it is now. :-) Just my 0.02 Euro. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" (Terry Pratchett) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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