Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 22:11:45 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sysinstall 'A'uto partitioning Message-ID: <200003082111.WAA35299@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> In-Reply-To: <8a4nr4$p12$1@atlantis.rz.tu-clausthal.de>
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Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> wrote in list.freebsd-hackers:
> I'll tell ya, I *never* use the auto-defaults.
Me neither. :-)
> They are way too
> tiny. A 50MB root barely fits the kernel and you can run it out of
> space doing an installworld. I almost always do this:
That's probably because you're a developper, I guess you have
at least a dozen kernels lying around. ;-)
30 Mbyte for / is enough for me.
BTW (replying to Jordan's statement), I agree that one big /
is a Bad Thing[TM]. Usually I try to separate stuff that's
often written to (/var, /home) from the static data (/, /usr).
That also makes backups easier. Furthermore, it is important
to separate partitions which could easily overflow (user homes,
spool directories) from "critical" things. That has saved my
day a few times. ;-)
Well, as someone else said, you can't make it fit everybody.
What I would like to see in sysinstall is an option to make
/tmp an MFS. But then again, that would probably open yet
another can of worms...
Regards
Oliver
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