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#! rnews 1493 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!lll-winken.llnl.gov!enews.sgi.com!decwrl!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1 Slice sizes? Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1995 06:19:18 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 16 Message-ID: <3083AD56.2781E494@FreeBSD.org> References: <45tof2$578@swen.emba.uvm.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b1 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE i386) To: Todd Huss <huss@emba-news.uvm.edu> Todd Huss wrote: > went to label the slices that as defaults it gave me 32MB for / and > 30MB for /var and I was curious if this isn't a bit excessive for an > X-User with Kernel source installation? I couldn't find the answer in It should be more dynamic. It's not. It simply picks hard-and-fast values that are very conservative, and it does not attempt to bias these values by distributions chosen. Yeah, it's evil and it's just one of those many "would like to have" features that slipped through the cracks. I'm trying to fix a number of historical warts in sysinstall before 2.1 right now here, but I regret to say that this is probably one of the things I won't get to in time. If you are constrained for disk space, don't use Autopartition! :( -- Jordan