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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!nntprelay.mathworks.com!news.mathworks.com!news.mathworks.com!howland.erols.net!newshub2.home.com!newshub1.home.com!news.home.com!news1.best.com!nntp2.ba.best.com!not-for-mail From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: var as directory not fs? Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 20:58:12 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 18 Message-ID: <33A60B54.15FB7483@FreeBSD.org> References: <33a56bb2.99111828@news.duke.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42910 Charles Reese wrote: > > I was helping a friend install FreeBSD over the phone and somehow > during the partitioning the /var file system was left out, now /var is > just a directory under root. Is this going to cause any problems? We > have a fairly large / partition and so far it is only at 67%. If this > will cause problems what is the best solution? > It will only cause problems if you receive a lot of mail or store lots of log information in /var, and then the issue is that it will simply fill up your root partition. Some people like to have small root partitions and large /var partitions, but it's not a hard-and-fast rule. If you had a 500MB root partition, for example, then /var would probably live quite comfortably on it. -- - Jordan Hubbard FreeBSD core team / Walnut Creek CDROM.