From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 12 7:41:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns.clientlogic.com (ns.clientlogic.com [207.51.66.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73CDC15795 for ; Tue, 12 Oct 1999 07:41:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ChrisMic@clientlogic.com) Received: by site0s1 with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) id <4W0STTDG>; Tue, 12 Oct 1999 10:41:09 -0400 Message-ID: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB4401105CDA@site2s1> From: Christopher Michaels To: 'Jaime Kikpole' , whitehat@home.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: total lag Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 10:44:14 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Why does he need a dedicated /var partition? This has been debated many times, and it'd be much simpler for him to just make a /usr/var and symlink /var to that. -Chris > -----Original Message----- > From: Jaime Kikpole [SMTP:jaime@malkav.snowmoon.com] > Sent: Saturday, October 09, 1999 11:32 AM > To: whitehat@home.com > Cc: questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: total lag > > On Fri, 8 Oct 1999 whitehat@home.com wrote: > > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mount > > > > /dev/wd0s2a 29751 22932 4439 84% / > > /dev/wd0s2e 595383 286406 261317 52% /usr > > procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc > > After taking a second look at your letter, I realize that I'm > talking out of my ass. Forget my suggestions. :) > > Instead, if you can afford to erase your hard drive and > re-install, reinstall FreeBSD and use the auto-defaults setting when > you're in the disk label editor. That will get /var (var = variable, in > other words it changes often) off of your / partition. Also, if you can, > after your finish installing and reboot your box, use ln to make /tmp be > nothing more than a link to /usr/tmp. That will help a bit, too. > > Don't worry about the procfs on /proc. FreeBSD uses that as a > virtual file system and it has nothing to do with disk activity. > > Jaime > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message