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Date:      Sat, 08 Dec 2001 12:50:01 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        Marko Zec <zec@tel.fer.hr>, "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM>, Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Using a larger block size on large filesystems 
Message-ID:  <200112082050.fB8Ko1T01347@mass.dis.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 08 Dec 2001 10:26:58 PST." <20011208102658.B11428@dragon.nuxi.com> 

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> > Why would we want to do that? Putting unnecessary things on / is always a
> > bad idea, as root partition should remain small and as free of frequent RW
> > operations as possible.
> 
> That is a *PERSONAL* opinion, so please mark it as such.  I personally
> use 1.5GB / partitions.  I _personally_ see zero reason for a /usr
> partition.

PERSONALLY, I disagree. 1.5GB is too small these days; 2GB is a better 
choice. 8)

Then again, I work for a company that puts everything in /System/Library, 
so I guess I should be quiet now. 8)

-- 
... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his
rivals and unfortunately opponents also.  But not because people want
to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force
people to take different points of view.  [Dr. Fritz Todt]
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