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From:
Klemens Nanni <kn@openbsd.org>
Subject:
Re: installer: default root disk: prefer those bigger than 1G
To:
Andrew Hewus Fresh <andrew@afresh1.com>
Cc:
OpenBSD tech <tech@openbsd.org>
Date:
Sat, 3 May 2025 01:05:41 +0000

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03.05.2025 03:48, Andrew Hewus Fresh пишет:
> I like this.  Most of my "small" USB sticks seem to be 8G so this
> probably won't help me terribly much in that case, but in the VMM case
> it seems nicer.

8G is plenty of space for real installations.
Some of my VPS with some packages installed take less than 5G.

1G is a) easy to parse and b) low enough for the heuristic too work. 

> I did hunt down a 64G stick and it shows up as 0.1G which seems
> reaonable for `disklabel -pg`.

64 *mega*bytes you mean?

> The implementation looks reasonable to me.  If there are no objections,
> I think it is a nice usability improvement, OK afresh1@

Thanks.

We can always tweak it in-tree no provide even better defaults.

One more boring "just hit enter" at a time!