Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 08:29:38 -0700 From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> To: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf kern.post.mk Message-ID: <F74CCD5E-AD4C-4343-9626-5F6460C4D6C6@xcllnt.net> In-Reply-To: <20050913125820.GA10663@FreeBSD.org> References: <20050911002229.51F4916A471@hub.freebsd.org> <432382BC.5080105@root.org> <200509110310.36423@harrymail> <43255152.3000609@freebsd.org> <20050912165518.GA94181@dragon.NUXI.org> <20050913125820.GA10663@FreeBSD.org>
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On Sep 13, 2005, at 5:58 AM, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 09:55:18AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > >> On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 02:58:42AM -0700, Colin Percival wrote: >> >>> 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. :-) >>> >> >> Perhaps we should follow what SGI and Sun has done for years on its >> workstations: a combined / + /var + /usr. We would make it 15GB >> and be >> done with it. My laptop has a combined /+/var+/usr of 12GB and I >> have >> multiple kernels installed and room in swap for a crashdump. >> > > AFAIK, we still do not turn softupdates on /, but do on other > partitions. With your proposed idea, softupdates should be on on /. > How safe is this today? I never use separate partitions for /usr and /var on my scratch boxes and I always enable SU on /. I can't say I've ever had any problems. -- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net
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