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Subject: Installation auto default 50 MB root not big enough
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>Number:         20865
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       Installation auto default 50 MB root not big enough
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    murray
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Aug 26 10:50:01 PDT 2000
>Closed-Date:    Wed Mar 14 02:15:14 PST 2001
>Last-Modified:  Wed Mar 14 02:17:03 PST 2001
>Originator:     Paul Smith
>Release:        4.0 Intel
>Organization:
Heredity Choice
>Environment:
>Description:
Auto slicing gives a 50 MB root on a 3+ GB drive. If one then tries to install a lot, there are failures writing to root. 

>How-To-Repeat:
Use auto slicing to get a root partition of 50 MB and install everything.
>Fix:
The problem vanishes if root is manually set at 70 MB.

The best solution would be to move out of root everything that is not part of the core operating system.

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: sheldonh 
State-Changed-When: Mon Aug 28 02:54:19 PDT 2000 
State-Changed-Why:  

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=20865 
State-Changed-From-To: closed->open 
State-Changed-By: sheldonh 
State-Changed-When: Mon Aug 28 02:55:16 PDT 2000 
State-Changed-Why:  
Closed with no message. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=20865 
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: sheldonh 
State-Changed-When: Mon Aug 28 02:55:44 PDT 2000 
State-Changed-Why:  
Duplicate of numerous PRs on the same issue.  Quite some 
discussion has resulted in very little progress.  The  
bottom line seems to be that no default is going to 
work for everyone.  perhaps this explains the reluctance 
to make a change. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=20865 
State-Changed-From-To: closed->open 
State-Changed-By: sheldonh 
State-Changed-When: Mon Aug 28 10:03:30 PDT 2000 
State-Changed-Why:  
Prematurely closed -- it seems that the discussions I remember 
on this issue took place on mailing lists, not in the PR 
audit trails of any significant PR's. 


Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->murray 
Responsible-Changed-By: sheldonh 
Responsible-Changed-When: Mon Aug 28 10:03:30 PDT 2000 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Murray, various members of the ideas brigade have strong opinions 
about this, although I don't recall seeing any patches.  Still, 
you'd certainly shut a lot of people up if you provided the 
kind of functionality that Garrett's talking about. :-) 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=20865 

From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
Cc: stork@qnet.com, freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: misc/20865: Installation auto default 50 MB root not big enough 
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 19:02:49 +0200

 On Mon, 28 Aug 2000 12:03:27 -0400, Garrett Wollman wrote:
 
 > As the original implementor of the `A' option, I believe it needs to
 > be changed.  I'd like to see it bring up a menu giving a number of
 > choices for different standard filesystem layouts [1], but even in the
 > absence of that, there is no excuse for the default root and /var
 > partitions being so small.
 
 And guess what?  I can only find a few only slightly related PR's.  The
 discussions I saw must have taken place on the mailing lists. :-(
 
 I'll re-open the PR.  Sorry about the premature closure.
 
 Ciao,
 Sheldon.
 
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: murray 
State-Changed-When: Wed Mar 14 02:15:14 PST 2001 
State-Changed-Why:  
The default root size was bumped several months ago.  In the future we 
can look at ways to offer users a choice of several different 
filesystem layouts but I think this is something to be tackled after 
we get a new packaging system and system installer.  


http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=20865 
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