On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 02:17:16PM +0200, Florian Friesdorf wrote: > > Sorry typing error, I meant /boot 10MB.
ah i thought it had to be something like that.. > I think you are right. It's just, I'm used to seperate /boot from /, so I can > move around root, if neccessary. > But with the lba32 lilo-option, this isn't necessary anyway. quite right, assuming you have a reasonably modern bios anyway. > --> / 70MB > > > I had in mind, using the /var partition also for temporary files, because it > is nearly as often frequented as /tmp. > Having a seperate partition for /tmp and linking /var/tmp is definitely the > better way, if you don't have to care about disc space. on workstations with large disks i tend to create a 30 or 40 MB /tmp and a 100 - 300MB /var/tmp, this way /tmp is cleaned automatically and is where the majority of small cruft files get placed, but /var/tmp can be used for semi long term storage of temporary junk. but on the other hand with a large /home /var/tmp is almost silly since users can and probably should use ~/tmp instead. (i have just found a large /var/tmp helpful in cases where /home is NFS mounted and i want to compile something, then to find the clocks on the two machines are slightly out of sync which pisses off make...) the /var/tmp partition would be more helpful security wise if /var was not so full of world writable directories... (/var/lock, /var/spool/texmf/*) -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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