On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 7:15 AM, Carlos Fenollosa <carlos.fenoll...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I’m a new OpenBSD user, so please forgive me if this topic has been discussed > thoroughly already. > > I installed a new box using the default partitioning (2GB for /usr) and I > found that it’s a bit insufficient since /usr/ports, /usr/xenocara and > /usr/src hang from there on the same partition, and eat up most of those 2GB. > I’ve searched online and some users also found the same problem > > Do you think it would be a good idea to increase that number to about 5GB? I > could try to write a simple patch for it. >
When you're coming in from the Linux world (or from the commercial OSses), you tend to expect guesswork to get you something close to a useable workstation. Actually, it does, for a wide range of definitions of "useable". But there are surprises. I have found myself buying a cheap (used) netbook to experiment with, and, over the last month and a half or so, I have found some of the reasons for the defaults being calculated as they are. Some of those reasons have been mentioned or alluded to in this thread. Not to say you shouldn't change them for your uses. You should. And you should expect to learn something from the choices you make. But, yeah, if you have enough disk space to give /usr 4G or even 8, do so. Also, you may need to re-purpose some of the automatic partition assignments to the other OSses you are dual-booting. (You can change those when you need, and you probably won't want to be reading from your Linux partition and writing to your MSWindows boot partition at any point and saving error messages to the FAT formatted shared partition, now, will you?) (When/if I get good enough with the tools here, I might experiment with options for enabling more partition names, but I'm sure I'll have to have a pretty airtight case for the breakage that will ensue before I can expect the developers to take it seriously. In the meantime, an external USB3 enclosure does the job for some of the stuff I do, including compiling the OS, etc. At least, it's not the bottleneck on this netbook, or any other hardware I currently have. I have fundamental disagreements with USB, but it works for now.) Joel Rees
