[indiana-discuss] Default Partitions sizes

[Peter Tribble]

On 10/4/07, Dev Mazumdar <dev at opensound.com> wrote:
> 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)

We had a discussion over in sysadmin-discuss recently:

http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=39882&tstart=15

(which I ought to write up a summary for) which basically goes along
with the 'keep it simple' approach.

And, you'll note that there was a contribution regarding the standards
that Sun use to build preinstalled systems, excerpted here:

http://wikis.sun.com/display/BigAdmin/BootDiskLayout

although that's fairly recent.

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