Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 11:15:55 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz> Cc: Barbara Scott <barbls@hotmail.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Partition sizes (was: Questions) Message-ID: <19990722111555.L84734@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SC5.4.10.9907221329160.4681-100000@kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz>; from Jonathan Chen on Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 01:33:05PM %2B1200 References: <19990721201359.18527.qmail@hotmail.com> <Pine.SC5.4.10.9907221329160.4681-100000@kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz>
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On Thursday, 22 July 1999 at 13:33:05 +1200, Jonathan Chen wrote: > On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Barbara Scott wrote: > >> I had set up the partition map for the UNIX slices as 40 MB for >> /, 180 MB for swap and 500 for /usr. I had requested the GNOME desktop >> environment during the initial installation, along with the DES security >> package. > > Your / partition size is way, *WAY* too small, since it has to hold > /tmp as well as /var information on it. Your partition size for / is fine. You don't want /tmp or /var/tmp on it, you should make symlinks into /usr for them. > You basically haven't got enough space to hold temporary files to do > anything big. You could possible add a /var and/or /tmp partition > on; You definitely don't want to do this. > or resize everything to one big / partition. That's an option. What was the original question? I don't normally read messages with a subject line like "Questions". Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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