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From: iansmith@pepper.ncinter.net (Ian Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: file system full
Date: 13 Aug 1995 03:05:05 GMT
Organization: North Coast Internet
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References: <3vrse7$a3j@raffles.technet.sg> <3vska8$2l7@aldous.gdirect.com> <3vt7p3$56v@salt.ncinter.net> <40gbm7$ddv@hamlet.m-u-b.de>
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Toni Mueller (toni@hamlet.m-u-b.de) wrote:
> Ian Smith (iansmith@pepper.ncinter.net) wrote on 4 Aug 1995 13:36:35 GMT:
> > System Administrator (root@aldous.gdirect.com) wrote:
> > > It means you should get rid of MFS.
> 
> > Is this a general recomendation?  I got rid of the mfs partition on
> > my news server, but kept it on the user machine.  Currently the mfs
> 
> Oooops, why ?
> 
> So far I never had problems with MFS, or at least no problems I would
> attribute to it. My /tmp is some 30 megs, and I had it even larger before.

I got rid of MFS on the news machine because it only had 48 meg of ram, 
and an 8 meg MFS partition took too much memory for my tastes, and news
has had problems when trying to write larger files than 8M to /tmp.

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