Default FS Layout Too Small?

[Ruben de Groot]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 07:29:50PM +0000, Craig Rodrigues typed:
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 11:10:25AM -0800, Sean Bruno wrote:
> > I would assume that the default would be much larger now-a-days. I think
> > a simple doubling to 1G would be sufficient.
> 
> Is there any point these days to having sysinstall auto-default to creating
> separate slices for /tmp, /var/, /usr........
> when setting up new systems, I've started just ignoring 
> the sysinstall auto-defaults and making one big / partition
> and installing FreeBSD there....
> 
> It seems every release we need to keep bumping up the size of
> the sysinstall auto-defaults because they are too small.
> 
> This bites new users.

How could changing the defaults bite new users who are by definition 
not used to any defaults yet?