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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au!news.apana.org.au!cantor.edge.net.au!news.teragen.com.au!news.access.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.nacamar.de!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD and SEX Date: 11 Mar 1997 22:26:17 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 20 Message-ID: <5g4m69$1gv@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <332072CE.5A56@postoffice.ptd.net> <5fqqk4$9f@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <87u3mltlrm.fsf@murkwood.gaffaneys.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:36940 Zach Heilig <zach@blizzard.gaffaneys.com> wrote: > More seriously, I just assumed he typo'd /dev for /var. In any > case, doesn't need to be very big for only one user. (I am only > using ~2.5Meg on my /var partition). The only reason you might want > to put more there is some program might need a bit of temporary > storage in /var/tmp. But, since he only has 160M total, there > probably aren't many of those programs that will fit. For only 160 MB of space, i would strongly suggest to use just two partitions only, one for swap, and the other one for the root file system. The only drawback is that in case of a crash, your entire file system is compromised, and needs fsck'ing. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)