> The first time I installed freebsd, I picked numbers that were
> a little larger than the defaults for '/' and '/var', and still
> found myself needing to redo the entire installation in less
> than a week because /var was too small. That was fine enough
And as you've seen by subsequent discussion, it's impossible
to derive a "one size fits all" solution for something like /var.
I would expect this to come out of the "I know where you want it, now
what kind of install will this be?" question which the newbie
installer gets to answer second. If they pick "mail server" from
the menu then /var will get a totally different ratio % assigned
to it. If they pick "personal workstation" then 20MB is, if anything,
perhaps a little high.
> Or are you saying that the newbie option would just use the
> entire disk as one partition (the way that MacOS 10 server
> does...)?
No, that's evil for a lot of reasons which I won't go into here. :)
- Jordan
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