Sysinstall automatic filesystem size generation.

[Jon Dama]

yes, that's quite generous.

why isn't /tmp just an mfs mount though?

On Sun, 28 Aug 2005, Colin Percival wrote:

> C. Michailidis wrote:
> > Remember, I'm talking about the 'path of least resistance', I understand that
> > I could label the slice manually with any number of different configurations.
> > The issue I was hoping to shed some light on is... "Can the auto-configuration
> > mechanism stand to be improved?". Is it reasonable (in today's era of dirt cheap
> > disk space) to have a mere 256MB allocated to /tmp (or /var or even /) by
> > default?
>
> The default sizes are now currently 512 MB for / and /tmp, and 1024 MB plus
> space for one crashdump on /var.  If anything, these are vast overkill for most
> systems; on /, for example, it is hard to imagine a situation where a normal
> user would use more than 150MB of space unless they were doing something which
> they shouldn't be doing.
>
> Colin Percival
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