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From: crs@quail.swcp.com (Charlie Sorsby)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD and SEX
Date: 9 Mar 1997 09:18:06 -0700
Organization: Just me, Los Alamos, NM
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In article <87u3mltlrm.fsf@murkwood.gaffaneys.com>,
Zach Heilig <zach@blizzard.gaffaneys.com> wrote:
= haszlaki@students.uiuc.edu (eric richard haszlakiewicz) writes:
=
= > Joe Eggert (eggertj@postoffice.ptd.net) wrote:
=
= > : Right now, my system has Win95 and WinNT 4.0. I threw in a spare 160MB
= > : hard drive to install FreeBSD on. But after the install, I can't get
= > : the F? from the boot manager. What exactly am I to do during the
[...]
= 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.
On the other hand, that depends upon how that one user will use the
machine, how it's set up, etc. Right now my /var partition
contains just over 10MB.
While one user may be able to do with quite a small partition for
/var, another may need rather a large one, depending upon logging,
spools, etc.
Just something to think about.
In either case, though, it is a good idea for this to be a separate
partition so that unexpectedly large activity doesn't fill up the
root partition.
--
Best regards,
Charlie "Older than dirt" Sorsby Los Alamos, NM "I'm the NRA!"
crs@swcp.com www.swcp.com/~crs Life Member since 1965