From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 23 11:21:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-27-141-144.mmcable.com [24.27.141.144]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E57AD37B406 for ; Sat, 23 Jun 2001 11:21:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 56409 invoked by uid 100); 23 Jun 2001 18:21:23 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15156.56867.456533.309985@guru.mired.org> Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 13:21:23 -0500 To: tyler spivey Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /var full, what to do? In-Reply-To: <110777720@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG tyler spivey types: > if you only have a 1 gig hd, just put the whole thing on / ( > anybody else have a better idea?) > that is what i do, i hate auto partitions. if its over 1k-cylls, > then... dunno, never had that prob. > i currently have the whole five gigs on /, easier to manage imo. For workstations, I do two things different. One is that I split /home out, so that I can do clean system installs without having to restore it. You have to decide how big that is going to be, though. I guess if it's so small that you can put it on a floppy, there's not point. The other thing is to split /usr out, as everything on it is built from sources. The system configuration and description files are all in /etc and /var, so they stay on /, which I back up regularly. 60 to 100 meg is enough for that. If you aren't going to back up /, this is pretty pointless as well. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message