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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newshost.marcam.com!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!salt.ncinter.net!pepper.ncinter.net!not-for-mail 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 Lines: 19 Message-ID: <40jq51$aim@salt.ncinter.net> References: <3vrse7$a3j@raffles.technet.sg> <3vska8$2l7@aldous.gdirect.com> <3vt7p3$56v@salt.ncinter.net> <40gbm7$ddv@hamlet.m-u-b.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: pepper.ncinter.net X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950726BETA PL0] 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. -- IanSmith@ncinter.net