[indiana-discuss] Default Partitions sizes

[Peter Tribble]

On 10/5/07, Richard Elling <Richard.Elling at sun.com> wrote:
> [danger: thread wandering]

They do that, don't they?

> I don't see the need to waste 140+ GBytes of space just because you
> want root separate from data.  It is even worse with thumpers -- especially
> if you imagine 1 TByte disks.  Go ahead, use it for something, even if
> it is just a spare :-)

Ignoring 1T of space doesn't feel right, but that's not logical.

As Ben R noticed, 146G is the largest 2.5" SAS drive currently available.
When you start to think about it, it's not all *that* big. Once you've
allowed yourself enough room for the OS footprint to grow (they're not
getting any smaller), added enough swap and dump space for modern
systems with high memory densities, given yourself adequate space
to save a crash dump or two, set aside space for an alternate boot
environment, and given yourself enough space to install the OS components
of a few zones, that 146G suddenly doesn't look anything like as
generous as you thought.

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