Re: re-thinking partitions
Daniel Mashao wrote:
>
> 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?
basically because I was afraid symlinks could slow it down;
but I'l do just that; create /dev/hda2/tmp and /dev/hda2/var
and symlynk /tmp and /var there;
thanks!
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> Daniel J. Mashao
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