Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2001 01:02:06 -0800 From: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.freebsd.org> To: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely8.cicely.de> Cc: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM>, Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>, Kirk McKusick <mckusick@beastie.mckusick.com>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proposed auto-sizing patch to sysinstall (was Re: Using a larger block size on large filesystems) Message-ID: <50925.1007888526@winston.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely8.cicely.de> of "Sun, 09 Dec 2001 01:33:40 %2B0100." <20011209013340.D6171@cicely8.cicely.de>
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Oh yeah, I forgot to comment on this part:
In that light perhaps what we need to do is have an auto-resizing
feature, so if the user deletes an auto-created partition sysinstall
automatically resizes the auto-created partitions before it to fill
up the space. So if the user hits 'A' and doesn't want /var/tmp, they
simply delete /var/tmp and /var gets its space. And if they don't
want /home they simply delete it and /usr gets its space. I think
this is a much easier mechanism for the user then requiring him to
select which Auto-profile to use.
I think this is another good feature to add, but it's purely orthogonal
to the suggestions I had.
- Jordan
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