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From: clee@serenivision.com
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Subject: sysinstall's disk labeler creates too small partitions
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>Number:         26531
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       sysinstall's disk labeler creates too small partitions
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Apr 13 00:30:04 PDT 2001
>Closed-Date:    Thu Sep 6 03:50:08 PDT 2001
>Last-Modified:  Thu Sep 06 03:51:06 PDT 2001
>Originator:     Chern Lee
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.3-BETA i386
>Organization:
BSDi
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD dream.osd.bsdi.com 4.3-BETA FreeBSD 4.3-BETA #1: Mon Mar 5 21:32:27 PST 2001 chern@dream.osd.bsdi.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/DREAM i386


	
>Description:
Many newbie users installing FreeBSD choose the easiest path and pick 'A' 
for Auto Defaults in the disk labeling section of sysinstall.  This leaves 
them with a meager 50 meg /, 20 meg /var, swap, and the rest in /usr.

Perhaps back in the day one could live with a 50 meg root and 20 meg /var 
partitions, but nowadays this fills rather quickly.

I've had a few calls from first-time users unable to install additional 
packages, have disk space problems soon after from doing this.

>How-To-Repeat:
Chose 'A' for Auto Defaults all in the disk label section of sysinstall 
for sysinstall's defaults on partition sizes.

>Fix:

Raise the bar on these two partitions.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg>
To: clee@serenivision.com
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/26531: sysinstall's disk labeler creates too small partitions
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 12:18:56 +0300

 On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 12:19:29AM -0700, clee@serenivision.com wrote:
 > 
 > >Number:         26531
 > >Category:       bin
 > >Synopsis:       sysinstall's disk labeler creates too small partitions
 > >Originator:     Chern Lee
 > >Release:        FreeBSD 4.3-BETA i386
 > >Organization:
 > BSDi
 > >Environment:
 > System: FreeBSD dream.osd.bsdi.com 4.3-BETA FreeBSD 4.3-BETA #1: Mon Mar 5 21:32:27 PST 2001 chern@dream.osd.bsdi.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/DREAM i386
 > 
 > 
 > 	
 > >Description:
 > Many newbie users installing FreeBSD choose the easiest path and pick 'A' 
 > for Auto Defaults in the disk labeling section of sysinstall.  This leaves 
 > them with a meager 50 meg /, 20 meg /var, swap, and the rest in /usr.
 > 
 > Perhaps back in the day one could live with a 50 meg root and 20 meg /var 
 > partitions, but nowadays this fills rather quickly.
 > 
 > I've had a few calls from first-time users unable to install additional 
 > packages, have disk space problems soon after from doing this.
 > 
 > >How-To-Repeat:
 > Chose 'A' for Auto Defaults all in the disk label section of sysinstall 
 > for sysinstall's defaults on partition sizes.
 > 
 > >Fix:
 > 
 > Raise the bar on these two partitions.
 
 I think the current sysinstall default is a 120M root, no?  /var seems
 to still be 20M..
 
 G'luck,
 Peter
 
 -- 
 What would this sentence be like if it weren't self-referential?
State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback 
State-Changed-By: bmah 
State-Changed-When: Sat Apr 14 09:46:02 PDT 2001 
State-Changed-Why:  
The current default size for / is now 100MB for the i386 and 110MB  
for the alpha.  The default size for /var is unchanged. 

Is this sufficient?  jkh says that changing the /var size would have 
some other ramifications. 


http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=26531 
State-Changed-From-To: feedback->closed 
State-Changed-By: murray 
State-Changed-When: Thu Sep 6 03:50:08 PDT 2001 
State-Changed-Why:  
Default sizes are significantly larger now.  I don't think anyone 
really complains anymore about the default partition size.  Thanks. 


http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=26531 
>Unformatted:
