On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 04:06:24AM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> Luke Hollins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in list.freebsd-hackers:
> > I was using sysinstall the other day and hit Auto defaults just to see
> > what it suggested, and got this on a 20GB disk:
> > wd0s1a / 50MB UFS Y
> > wd0s1b swap 651MB SWAP
> > wd0s1e /var 20MB UFS Y
> > wd0s1f /usr 18849MB UFS Y
> >
> > the /var one struck me as really bad just thought i would mention it
>
> I think 20 Mbyte is perfectly OK. More than that would be a
> waste of diskspace on a workstation. And if you're installing
> a server, you probably don't use the "A"uto defaults anyway.
I disagree. It would be true if people only processed text documents
and sent e-mail through /var/spool, but today there are office suites to
contend with. A 20Mbyte print job is not all that unreasionable for a
large Powerpoint presentation, especialy if it has a background image.
I once printed one that was averaging about 1MB per page and was nearly
30 pages long. It's even worse if you have to rasterize the thing
localy with ghostscript. A full page 600dpi image is freaking huge.
We've got a native office suite now, it would be nice it it worked well
by default. (While I'm at it, the default print spool file size limit,
1MB, is rediculous.)
-- Brooks
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