Default FS Layout Too Small?

[David Lindström]

Hi everyone, I'm new to this list, and fairly new to FreeBSD. I'm a CS 
student currently using FreeBSD for fun and learning, but I'm hoping to one 
day make myself useful to the community, if nothing else as a tester.

>From my limited experience, I think you should consider an update to the 
auto defaults, if nothing else to allow it to use more than one disk. Also, 
wouldn't it be a good idea to create a /home by default, or is there some 
reason I can't think of right now why you want it in the /usr filesystem?

Mvh
David Lindström

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paige Thompson" <erratic at devel.ws>
To: "Ruben de Groot" <mail25 at bzerk.org>; "Craig Rodrigues" 
<rodrigc at crodrigues.org>; "Sean Bruno" <sean.bruno at dsl-only.net>; "FreeBSD 
Current" <freebsd-current at freebsd.org>
Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 12:38 PM
Subject: Re: Default FS Layout Too Small?


>I use the auto defaults and frankly thats one of the. things in fbsd that I
> have become quite fond of over these years. If that goes away Im going to
> cry. If anything itd be nice if it would suggest a few different layouts 
> and
> possibly partions for more than just what it suggests. I prefer many
> partitions myself but over the last year or so Ive used lvm2 and ext3 
> which
> I can resize. Cant you resize those partitions later?
>
> -Adele
> (sent from my gphone!)
>
> On Feb 27, 2009 2:00 AM, "Ruben de Groot" <mail25 at bzerk.org> wrote:
>
> 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?
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