Re: Installation partitioning: core dump and /var size

2021-11-06 Thread uxer
> a crash dump is roughly the size of your physcial mem. Actually > the max for /var is 4G *plus* 2x physical mem. So the table in the > man page is not completely right. This is precisely what I was after, thanks to Otto Moerbeek. But I'd like to add a comment for clarification. No need for

Re: Installation partitioning: core dump and /var size

2021-11-05 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Fri, Nov 05, 2021 at 11:15:13AM +0200, u...@mailo.com wrote: > Also asked on: > https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/676245/openbsd-core-dump-and-var-size > > I'm trying to figure out my partitioning which leads to > https://man.openbsd.org/disklabel#AUTOMATIC_DISK_ALLOCATION > which

Re: Installation partitioning: core dump and /var size

2021-11-05 Thread deich...@placebonol.com
Twice the size of physical memory is norm for swap partition On November 5, 2021 3:15:13 AM MDT, u...@mailo.com wrote: >Also asked on: >https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/676245/openbsd-core-dump-and-var-size > >I'm trying to figure out my partitioning which leads to

Installation partitioning: core dump and /var size

2021-11-05 Thread uxer
Also asked on: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/676245/openbsd-core-dump-and-var-size I'm trying to figure out my partitioning which leads to https://man.openbsd.org/disklabel#AUTOMATIC_DISK_ALLOCATION which says: "/var13% of disk. 80M – 2x size of crash dump" But how do I