On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 09:43:16AM -0400, Russell Hires wrote: > > I think I've read the partition howto, I just hate making the decisions > myself about how big each one should be. How big should I make /var, or > /usr? That's what I'm asking, really...I never feel like I know what's > good. i make /var 1GB, that allows for a large apt package cache. /usr i make 4GB if i can. that allows for a fairly bloated system. also make a 50 to 60MB /tmp, 1GB /var, 4GB /usr and rest to /home you should be fine. of course that depends on how much space you have available... > > is this a NewWorld or Oldworld box? > > Ehh... it's Oldworld. A G3/266 standard everything except for my Voodoo3 > video card. I had a heck of a time getting X to work. Upgrading to > XFree86 4.1 is what started my off on this kick. Something broke...(see > beginning of this thread :-) ah ok, well if you run Apple's system disk control panel first the new Make System Bootable might make it actually boot from quik. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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