Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 10:44:14 -0400 From: Christopher Michaels <ChrisMic@clientlogic.com> To: 'Jaime Kikpole' <jaime@malkav.snowmoon.com>, whitehat@home.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: total lag Message-ID: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB4401105CDA@site2s1>
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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
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