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Date:      Mon, 12 Sep 2005 02:58:42 -0700
From:      Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org>
To:        Emanuel Strobl <Emanuel.strobl@gmx.net>
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf kern.post.mk
Message-ID:  <43255152.3000609@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <200509110310.36423@harrymail>
References:  <20050911002229.51F4916A471@hub.freebsd.org> <432382BC.5080105@root.org> <200509110310.36423@harrymail>

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Emanuel Strobl wrote:
> Hmm, why was default size of root changed to 500M?

Because I was increasing the sizes of /tmp and /var at the same time; because
I know that some users do somehow manage to fill up /; and because re@ told
me to. :-)

I still have a 128MB / on most of my systems.

> Incredable much too much 
> IMHO, if not reserved for debug kernels....
> I've just been wondering today how wasteful FreeBSD uses the hard disk 
> these days (BETA4)...

You'll only get a 500MB / if you have more than 10GB of space on your hard
disk.  I don't think that going from 2.5% of the disk up to 5% of the disk
is problematically wasteful, particularly since we're only talking about the
_default_ value and it's very easy to change in sysinstall.

Colin Percival



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