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Date:      Sat, 8 Dec 2001 00:11:10 -0500 (EST)
From:      Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc:        freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Proposed auto-sizing patch to sysinstall (was Re: Using a larger block size on large filesystems)
Message-ID:  <15377.41198.83638.460387@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200112080349.fB83nWU00292@apollo.backplane.com>
References:  <31807.1007732134@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> <200112072257.fB7MvjE95211@apollo.backplane.com> <200112072311.fB7NB2723789@whizzo.transsys.com> <p05101006b83737546907@[128.113.24.47]> <200112080349.fB83nWU00292@apollo.backplane.com>

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Matthew Dillon writes:

<..>

Nice.  I like it except for the size of /var:

 >     /var	128M - lets discuss this.  I would actually like to make
 > 		/var larger if the disk itself is huge, because the mail
 > 		boxes and spool is on /var.

Let's not forget /var/crash.  I always make var at least twice as
large as the physical memory in the box, plus some slop,  so I have
enough room to hold 2 crashdumps. 

Cheers, 

Drew




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