Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 15:50:21 +0100 From: Svein Halvor Halvorsen <svein.h@lvor.halvorsen.cc> To: Jan Krediet <J.Krediet@planet.nl> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Slices Message-ID: <bbe90d1d0512120650x32fd75f8pdedab977eb4569f1@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <000601c5ff28$9fb71e00$46933c50@Medion> References: <000601c5ff28$9fb71e00$46933c50@Medion>
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On 12/12/05, Jan Krediet <J.Krediet@planet.nl> wrote: > At first: I'm a newbie when I am talking about FreeBSD or UNIX! Welcome to the community! > For long time i had the wish to install BSD because I > experienced that UNIX or related versions are more > powerfull than OSses from Microsoft. > > So i decided a week ago, to download a FreeBSD vs.6 and to install it. Sounds great! > What i like to know from you is: is here something going > wrong or is the size, as written in the handbook (50mB) and the faq's, no= longer current in your FreeBSD vs.6? I'd say that the handbook should be updated, as 50MB is a little short. However, the size you would need for /var will very much depends upon what you plan on using this computer for. The heir(7) manpage will explain in detail what files usually lives inside /var, but to sum up its mostly log files, spool files and package information. Also /var/tmp is used to unpack packages in, which means it would quickly fill up if installing large packages. But this could easily be circumvented though. Point is: If you plan to run a mail or print server or any other server that will have large amounts of spool files lying around, you should increase your /var partition accordingly. Same goes for log files. If you plan on keeping those around for a long time, and run alot of servers that will produce lots of logs, increase /var to fit. > So i'm a little proud in understanding so quick at this age. You should be. Hope you have a fun time getting to know FreeBSD. Svein Halvor
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