Daniel Mashao wrote: > > On 14 Nov 1997, Dale Martin wrote: > > > Philippe Troin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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! > /-------------------------------------------------------------------/ > Daniel J. Mashao > Electrical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] > University of Cape Town http://www.ee.uct.ac.za/~daniel > Rondebosch, 7700, S. Africa (w) 27+21+6502816 (h) 27+21+6863662 > /-------------------------------------------------------------------/ -- Otavio Exel /<\oo/>\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
