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Robison, DaveFeb 17, 2012 2:05 pm 
Chuck SwigerFeb 17, 2012 2:17 pm 
Devin TeskeFeb 17, 2012 2:34 pm 
Maxim KhitrovFeb 17, 2012 2:40 pm 
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Subject:RE: One or Four?
From:Devin Teske (devi@fisglobal.com)
Date:Feb 17, 2012 2:34:27 pm
List:org.freebsd.freebsd-questions

-----Original Message----- From: owne@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- ques@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Chuck Swiger Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 2:18 PM To: davi@fisglobal.com Cc: free@freebsd.org Subject: Re: One or Four?

On Feb 17, 2012, at 2:05 PM, Robison, Dave wrote:

We'd like a show of hands to see if folks prefer the "old" style default

with 4

partitions and swap, or the newer iteration with 1 partition and swap.

For a user/desktop machine, I prefer one root partition. For other roles like a server, I prefer multiple partitions which have been sized for the intended usage.

Then does the question ultimately become...

"Shall we then have two algorithms and ask the user whether they are installing for the desktop versus server?"

If that's the case, then I think this is something I could personally live with (as it then becomes possible to obtain the old layout of 4 partitions with auto-calculated sizes ala Colin Percival's last sizing algorithm committed in version 1.149 of src/usr.sbin/sysinstall/label.c made pre-SVN 6 years 6 months ago).

See http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/usr.sbin/sysinstall/Attic/label.c?rev= 1.149;content-type=text%2Fx-cvsweb-markup

The above link describes the partition scheme that I and colleagues seek-most to return to FreeBSD 9.x and higher.

I argue that Colin's algorithm is still useful for servers and is still the preferred method of allocation for servers and thus should remain an option, even if we don't change the [new] default back to the above linked-to scheme.

-- Devin

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