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From:
Andrew Hewus Fresh <andrew@afresh1.com>
Subject:
Re: installer: default root disk: prefer those bigger than 1G
To:
Klemens Nanni <kn@openbsd.org>
Cc:
OpenBSD tech <tech@openbsd.org>
Date:
Fri, 2 May 2025 18:25:57 -0700

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On Sat, May 03, 2025 at 01:05:41AM +0000, Klemens Nanni wrote:
> 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. 

Agreed, 1G is a good cutoff for several reasons.


> > 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?

Yes, apparently it's such a foreign concept my fingers autocorrected.

 
> > 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!

\o/