-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Sun, 28 Nov 1999, Howard Mann wrote:
> I am planning an installation of Debian and > solicit recommendations for the size of a > separate /var logical partition. I plan to use > apt-get to install packages and to upgrade my > distribution when appropriate. > > In section 3.3 of the Debian FAQ, there is a > recommendation for a /var of 100Mb. However, I > have seen posts on this list from users who have > reported failures in "dist-upgrade" because the > associated space requirements are much larger. > > What would you recommend ? > > After creating a "large" /var partition, I plan > to create a symbolic link between /tmp > and /var/tmp. ( ln -s /tmp /var/tmp ) Is this > O.K. ? I have partitioned my 5GB hd at home as follows: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 129M 68M 58M 54% / /dev/hda3 364M 205M 151M 58% /var /dev/hda6 893M 681M 213M 76% /usr /dev/hda7 3.0G 1.5G 1.5G 49% /home /tmp is a symlink to /var/tmp, /usr/src a symlink to /home/src, so that / and /usr usualy don't change... 120M on /var are used by wwwoffle (this can be reduced very easy by giving wwwoffle limitations on the cachesize). If desired /var could be smaller on my system (but due to my installation history it happened do be 360MB and isn't disturbing), the size of / is also very static, so it could be easyly 40MB smaller, if the space would be needed otherwise... The problems which arises if the space on /var patition is to small for an apt-get download is easyly to solve: You only have to make /var/cache/apt/archives a symlink to some place on a partition with enougth space for the download. At this place you have to have a directory called 'partial', otherwise apt-get will complain about it. I have had once this problem when I've upgraded to potato and had to download about 240M deb files... Martin - -- Where do you want to go today? - As far from Redmond as possible! For public PGP-key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBOEHRxbCGSMW7I2etAQH+9wQApp+y1HIks+exE5MPweG/xz2KKUfGkcwv mmxK+nfp3DykAxxG7uXRRY9RcK0zte6cG7Eoq+yikhtqfc7Dl13Ni38d1n1V5ZR+ ZwIcIJazj/UsQJz5TjY90EhZ20Xi54tuTO2yKxT8whcigym5pkvcKqEb8BKy3lrn uSjf2HNj/ac= =q1oG -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
