Re: history (Was Re: Corel/Debian Linux Installer)

[Steve Dunham <dunham@cse.msu.edu>]

Jonathan Walther <krooger@debian.org> writes:

> With Debian distributions, and small disks, I have found this to always be
> sufficient:
> 
> /     32M
> /var  96M
> swap  32M or more.
> /usr  all the rest

> /home is a symlink to /usr/home
> /tmp  is a symlink to /var/tmp

So what happens to the stuff in /var/tmp on reboot?  /var/tmp is
supposed to be preserved across reboots and /tmp isn't.  Some programs
(e.g. vi) rely on this behaviour?

BTW, your /var might not be big enough to handle an upgrade from slink
to potato.  (Depending on whether the source of the packages is net or
CD, I think.)


Steve
dunham@cse.msu.edu