Hi, This is a quote from Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> from couple of months ago:
> I would really recommend people just make a partition for /usr/ports and > save the hassle and potential problems of moving it elsewhere via > environment/ mk.conf/attempts with symlinks... He mentions that kind of sentiment few times on the mailing list. When I look at couple of my machines which do have ports checked out, they're never in default /usr/ports location. I wanted to finally have at least one machine with default location and then ralized, no good quide what size to assign to the partition. Should that be just part of /usr partition? I'm not sure, does the installer or actually disklabel and its automatic disk allocation takes ports development into account with sizing? What are your setups? Are you having /usr/ports on /usr partition or do you create separate partition for /usr/ports? What would be its size? I've glanced at main Porter's Handbook page[1] and didn't find anything about disk slicing and disk requirements. I've looked at FAQ's Disk Partitioning[2], hier(7) and ports(7), but I don't see any info about partition allocation and sizing. I think from my perspective that lack of information is main contributor, why I don't use default location for ports. [1] https://www.openbsd.org/faq/ports/index.html [2] https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#Partitioning -- Regards, Mikolaj
