On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 03:13:21PM -0500, Nick Holland wrote: > > / = 500MB > > too big. 150MB will do it VERY nicely. 200MB if you think I'm > being too tight. 70M will do fine, too. :)
Or even 50M (3.8 on i386), but this would be a little bit on the edge. > > /tmp - 100MB > > Paranoia makes me make that bigger, usually 200M, though I can't think > of a reason why on your app. I've made no bad experiences in using an mfs for /tmp with a size between 32MB (small router) and 256MB (desktop) or something between (webserver with some additional shell accounts). > > /var - 1GB > > sounds big... What about /var/spool/mail or, for example, /var/spool/uucp? Yes, I may be oldfashioned, but IMHO the first filesystem that fills up is always /var. Ciao, Kili