From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 7 17:45:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from usc.edu (usc.edu [128.125.253.136]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE32537B5F1 for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2000 17:45:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from walker@usc.edu) Received: from skat.usc.edu (walker@skat.usc.edu [128.125.253.131]) by usc.edu (8.9.3.1/8.9.3/usc) with ESMTP id RAA29917; Tue, 7 Mar 2000 17:45:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (walker@localhost) by skat.usc.edu (8.9.3.1/8.9.3/usc) with ESMTP id RAA10256; Tue, 7 Mar 2000 17:45:13 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 17:45:12 -0800 (PST) From: Mike Walker To: Luke Hollins Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sysinstall 'A'uto partitioning In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I was using sysinstall the other day and hit Auto defaults just to see > what it suggested, and got this on a 20GB disk: > wd0s1a / 50MB UFS Y > wd0s1b swap 651MB SWAP > wd0s1e /var 20MB UFS Y > wd0s1f /usr 18849MB UFS Y > > the /var one struck me as really bad just thought i would mention it How about adding a /usr/local for bigger disks to break up dumps? amanda only supports dumping to one tape. So using dump on filesystems over 7/14G can cause problems. Not everyone has 20/40 plus tapes and images don't compress much. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message