Re: [SLUG] Partition Opinions

From: Smitty (a.smitty@verizon.net)
Date: Mon Sep 09 2002 - 22:40:51 EDT


Hello, Paul!
Haven't heard from you in quite sometime.
How goes it?
Smitty

On Monday 09 September 2002 22:21, you wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Smitty wrote:
> > I solicit any opinions on the wisdom of putting /var on a seperate
> > partition or /var and /tmp together on a seperate partition. If so,
> > what should the partition size be?
>
> You can't really (reliably) put /var and /tmp on the same partition, which
> is a shame. Other than that I like to keep an area seperate for them
> just to make absolutely sure other critical portions of the filesystem
> aren't harmed if an application goes haywire.
>
> I use about .5G for each of those and they don't nearly get that full. I
> can spare 1G on the disk so it's really not a problem for me.
>
>
> Paul Braman
> aeon@tampabay.rr.com



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