Re: Default FS Layout Too Small?

Tim Kientzle wrote:
Craig Rodrigues wrote:
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.

I agree. The "one big /" style of partitioning seems a
much more reasonable default for most desktop/laptop users
these days. For server users, the separate /tmp and /var
are pretty critical, though I doubt those folks are using
the "A"uto layout very much, so changing the "A"uto layout
to just allocate / and swap would seem to make sense.

When I last played around with having 1 large partition in the 6.1 days, it didn't actually work consistently. From memory the issue is that if the boot filesystem (which was on the large root partition) extended past a particular combination of cyl/head/sector, the machine would crash in the boot stage. With a 20GB disk it was fine, but a 40GB disk would trigger the crash.

This may have been fixed since then, but it would be worth doing some testing on a range of hardware before we could recommend it as an option.

Cheers,
Lawrence
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