Re: re-thinking partitions

[oexel@economatica.com.br (Otavio Exel)]

Dale Martin wrote:
> 
> Daniel Mashao <daniel@comgate.ee.uct.ac.za> writes:
> > why not put /var and /tmp in the same root partition?
> 
> When you run out of space on your root partition while compiling, it's a
> real pain.  I've had it happen.  I've never run out of space on /var, or on
> / if I don't have /tmp on it.  So, I have /tmp soft linked to the partition
> with the most free space on my system.  (This is a peculiarity of my
> environment, I know, but I still think that 16M is a tad small for /tmp,
> which is what I was originally responding to.)

yes, all this partitioning stuff becomes not so important if you
use symlinks; AFAIK the only true reason to avoid symlinking /var
or /tmp into another partition is that /var and /tmp are more
vulnerable to crashes on (say) power faillures;

thanks!

> 
> Later,
>         Dale
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