Bug 26531

Summary:	sysinstall's disk labeler creates too small partitions
Product:	Base System	Reporter:	clee <clee>
Component:	bin	Assignee:	freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status:	Closed FIXED
Severity:	Affects Only Me
Priority:	Normal
Version:	Unspecified
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description clee 2001-04-13 08:30:04 UTC

Many newbie users installing FreeBSD choose the easiest path and pick 'A' 
for Auto Defaults in the disk labeling section of sysinstall.  This leaves 
them with a meager 50 meg /, 20 meg /var, swap, and the rest in /usr.

Perhaps back in the day one could live with a 50 meg root and 20 meg /var 
partitions, but nowadays this fills rather quickly.

I've had a few calls from first-time users unable to install additional 
packages, have disk space problems soon after from doing this.

Fix: 

Raise the bar on these two partitions.
How-To-Repeat: Chose 'A' for Auto Defaults all in the disk label section of sysinstall 
for sysinstall's defaults on partition sizes.

Comment 1 Peter Pentchev 2001-04-13 10:18:56 UTC

On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 12:19:29AM -0700, clee@serenivision.com wrote:
> 
> >Number:         26531
> >Category:       bin
> >Synopsis:       sysinstall's disk labeler creates too small partitions
> >Originator:     Chern Lee
> >Release:        FreeBSD 4.3-BETA i386
> >Organization:
> BSDi
> >Environment:
> System: FreeBSD dream.osd.bsdi.com 4.3-BETA FreeBSD 4.3-BETA #1: Mon Mar 5 21:32:27 PST 2001 chern@dream.osd.bsdi.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/DREAM i386
> 
> 
> 	
> >Description:
> Many newbie users installing FreeBSD choose the easiest path and pick 'A' 
> for Auto Defaults in the disk labeling section of sysinstall.  This leaves 
> them with a meager 50 meg /, 20 meg /var, swap, and the rest in /usr.
> 
> Perhaps back in the day one could live with a 50 meg root and 20 meg /var 
> partitions, but nowadays this fills rather quickly.
> 
> I've had a few calls from first-time users unable to install additional 
> packages, have disk space problems soon after from doing this.
> 
> >How-To-Repeat:
> Chose 'A' for Auto Defaults all in the disk label section of sysinstall 
> for sysinstall's defaults on partition sizes.
> 
> >Fix:
> 
> Raise the bar on these two partitions.

I think the current sysinstall default is a 120M root, no?  /var seems
to still be 20M..

G'luck,
Peter

-- 
What would this sentence be like if it weren't self-referential?

Comment 2 Bruce A. Mah freebsd_committer

2001-04-14 17:46:02 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->feedback

The current default size for / is now 100MB for the i386 and 110MB  
for the alpha.  The default size for /var is unchanged. 

Is this sufficient?  jkh says that changing the /var size would have 
some other ramifications.

Comment 3 Murray Stokely freebsd_committer

2001-09-06 11:50:08 UTC

State Changed
From-To: feedback->closed

Default sizes are significantly larger now.  I don't think anyone 
really complains anymore about the default partition size.  Thanks.