Our old friend, the small default layout is back...

[Svein Skogen (listmail account)]

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Nick Hilliard wrote:
> On 25/08/2009 20:14, Svein Skogen (listmail account) wrote:
>> Just finished setting up a RELENG_8 box (using install media from BETA2).
>>
>> Seems our old friend the too small root partition (by default) for x64
>> is back. Should this be fixed before the RC, so users applying
>> buildworld->buildkernel->installkernel->installworld doesn't get tossed
>> out of their cycle by an out-of-space error?
> 
> Disk space is dirt cheap.  Please someone just bump this up to 1G so
> that the problem goes away for a long time.
> 
> Pro: disk space costs around 10c-15c per gigabyte these days.  It is
> worth investing 10 or even 15 cents worth of disk space now in order to
> save the freebsd user base from pointless hair-pulling and
> teeth-gnashing in the future.
> 
> Con: there is still probably a miniscule number of people installing
> freebsd on ancient equipment with 20G hard disks; in this case, you
> could argue that 1G is a substantial amount of space.  On the other
> hand, anyone installing freebsd8 on ancient iron is probably familiar
> enough with the installation procedure to notice and change this default
> on their own system.
> 

This is currently only a real problem with the x64 version. How many
antiquities with x64 capabilities will FreeBSD be run on?

//Svein


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