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Date:      Mon, 17 Nov 1997 18:32:20 -0500 (EST)
From:      Alfred Perlstein <perlsta@cs.sunyit.edu>
To:        hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Partitioning suggestions?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.971117183059.3590A-100000@server.local.sunyit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <19971117145827.11042@micron.mini.net>

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i wasn't going to get into this thread, however i feel that a 32meg root
is NOT a good idea, 50megs is nice, but with 32megs i've come across
problems of filling the root partition.

-Alfred

>   Were I you, I'd merge the /tmp filesystem into swap, and then mount your
> /tmp via MFS. You will notice much better performance on /tmp. Also,
> personally, I always use a 32M root, especially when I have a /var filesystem,
> and have never had space problems with root.
> 
> > [ ... snip ... ]
> 
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