misc/163051: Small disk sizes with 4k sectors have far too few inodes in RC2

[Jason Bacon]

The following reply was made to PR misc/163051; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jason Bacon <bacon at uwm.edu>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, teamdest at pbarletta.com
Cc:  
Subject: Re: misc/163051: Small disk sizes with 4k sectors have far too few
 inodes in RC2
Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2012 11:54:59 -0600

 I've run into the same issue on RC3, and would argue for higher severity 
 and priority.  There does not seem to be a workaround in the 
 installation process (e.g. the ability to add newfs flags during 
 partitioning), and this prevents the completion of a desktop 
 installation on a 10 gig VDI under VirtualBox.  Below is output after a 
 basic XFCE setup and only a few applications:
 
 Filesystem   1K-blocks      Used    Avail Capacity iused    ifree 
 %iused  Mounted on
 /dev/ada0a      515612    222640   251724    47%    2054    31224    6%   /
 devfs                1         1        0   100%       0        0  
 100%   /dev
 /dev/ada0d     1031708     32700   916472     3%    2671    63375    
 4%   /var
 /dev/ada0e      515612      4184   470180     1%      20    33258    
 0%   /tmp
 /dev/ada0f     7220888   3761132  2882088    57%  440632    32966   
 93%   /usr
 procfs               4         4        0   100%       1        0  
 100%   /proc
 
 I agree that a simple check for disk size in the installer would be a 
 reasonable solution.
 
 Cheers,
 
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    Jason W. Bacon
    Systems Programmer
    UITS High Performance Computing Group
    University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
    bacon at uwm.edu
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