Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 22:57:29 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: "C. Michailidis" <dinom@balstonresearch.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sysinstall automatic filesystem size generation. Message-ID: <20050829035729.GH88693@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <200508282330.09302.dinom@balstonresearch.com> References: <200508282330.09302.dinom@balstonresearch.com>
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In the last episode (Aug 28), C. Michailidis said: > Did you ever see a 300 lb. bodybuilder with legs like pencils? It's > pretty funny. Now imagine a 199gb /usr with a 256mb /tmp /var and /, > look similar? This issue became apparent when I attempted to > portupgrade OpenOffice and the process failed, indicating that there > wasn't enough space in /var/tmp.... I have a 60gb disk drive and my > /var and /tmp are a lousey 256mb?!?!? Ugh! Please don't jump down > my throat on this one... I know, I know... I'm stupid, yes I should > have labelled the disk by hand. I probably should have installed the > entire system by some other incredibly painstaking method too, > perhaps I should have etched the bits onto the disk with a needle, a > spool of wire, a magnet, and a 9-volt battery - IDK. For anything over a 9gb disk, I just make one big / partition. If you sub partition, you'll always end up filling one (either /var or /tmp quickly or /usr eventually) and wish you had picked different sizes. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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