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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
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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.