Re: re-thinking partitions
On 14 Nov 1997, Dale Martin wrote:
> Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org> writes:
>
> > This is a lot of space wasted unless you have large spool directories
> > (news/mail). For a reasonable single-user station, 64MB should be
> > largely enough on /var. /tmp is left to your choice (16 is a good
> > number).
>
> I would find 16M for /tmp WAY too small. I do development, and the
> compiler wants to put it's temporary files /tmp - some of them can be
why not put /var and /tmp in the same root partition?
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Daniel J. Mashao
Electrical Engineering daniel@comgate.ee.uct.ac.za
University of Cape Town http://www.ee.uct.ac.za/~daniel
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