Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:04:52 +0100 From: Nick Hilliard <nick-lists@netability.ie> To: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> Cc: "Svein Skogen \(listmail account\)" <svein-listmail@stillbilde.net>, Dimitry Andric <dimitry@andric.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Our old friend, the small default layout is back... Message-ID: <4A955D24.1020803@netability.ie> In-Reply-To: <d7195cff0908260846t2da1273ak91a4a2be159a7c39@mail.gmail.com> References: <4A94382A.5080708@stillbilde.net> <4A944612.6010107@netability.ie> <4A945216.4040603@stillbilde.net> <4A94528A.5030609@netability.ie> <4A950054.4080104@andric.com> <d7195cff0908260846t2da1273ak91a4a2be159a7c39@mail.gmail.com>
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On 26/08/2009 16:46, illoai@gmail.com wrote: > In addition to Novice, Standard, and Advanced, we must > prepare for the future by adding a Foot-Shoot (default / > size is 128M newfs -b 4096) and an Ubunutu option with > one massive root partition with journaling and encryption > and a swap file residing in /. You're right. My local computer shop is selling 1Tb disks for the outrageous sum of €80, and as you infer, it's a ridiculous idea to default to squandering 8 cents worth of disk space for the root partition instead of 1 cent worth of space. It's important to keep these things in perspective: look after the pennies and the pounds look after themselves. On an related issue, as the freebsd8 amd64 default install is clearly aimed at tiny, ancient installations, I have suddenly developed a pressing need for ISDN and ATM support on a new amd64 server I bought last month with 4 megs of RAM and a 5 gig disk. Can someone please pull this code back out of the attic? thanks in advance, Seriously, though, is this worth arguing? Nick (off to paint his bikeshed)
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