Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 09:31:24 +0800 From: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Matt Dillon <dillon@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/sysinstall label.c Message-ID: <20030126013124.GD3641@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20030125215919.GA6687@HAL9000.homeunix.com> References: <200301251932.h0PJWZHo054126@repoman.freebsd.org> <20030125215919.GA6687@HAL9000.homeunix.com>
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On Saturday, 25 January 2003 at 13:59:20 -0800, David Schultz wrote:
> Thus spake Matt Dillon <dillon@FreeBSD.ORG>:
>> dillon 2003/01/25 11:32:35 PST
>>
>> Modified files:
>> usr.sbin/sysinstall label.c
>> Log:
>> Change the nominal swap calculation from 1/2 physical memory to 1/8
>> physical memory. The default is still 2x physical memory. The nominal
>> calculation is used to back-off swap auto-allocation ('A'uto command)
>> when the disk is not large enough to accomodate all filesystem auto-defaults.
>> This gives other partitions (like /usr) more priority over swap on smaller
>> disks.
>>
>> This should help solve reported auto-sizing failures on machines with small
>> hard drives and huge amounts of memory. For example, a machine with 2G of
>> disk and 4G of memory will fail to auto-size without this fix.
>
> While you're at it, could you see if you can fix the problem where
> sysinstall refuses to install if no swap partition is specified at
> all?
I second this. There are cases where you're installing a second
FreeBSD system on a disk, and there's a swap partition on another
slice. Currently there's no way to tell sysinstall to use this
partition, and if you can't defer it until later because sysinstall
refuses to install without swap.
Greg
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