[indiana-discuss] Default Partitions sizes

[Dev Mazumdar]

I absolutely hate Solaris's default partitions - 1 small root 1 small swap and a huge freakin /export/home. 

The problem is that when you install dev tools and other Blastwave apps, they all go into /opt (or /usr/local) and you're pretty much screwed out of space in /tmp as well. So now none of your compiling or editors have space for temp files.

My suggestion for Indiana is now that we have journaling turned on, why not have  1 swap partition = 2-4 x real memory and the rest allocated to root. We no longer need to worry about running out of disk space and having to install programs in other directories only to find out that they sometimes don't behave properly if they aren't installed in their "default" directory (usually /usr/local or /opt)

Thoughts???


best regards
Dev Mazumdar
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