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Date:      Sun, 6 Feb 2000 10:36:58 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        "James A. Mutter" <jmutter@ds.net>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Disk is full message, how could this happen?
Message-ID:  <20000206103658.C16173@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <389CB9FB.B128D712@ds.net>
References:  <00020423330503.02757@chip.homenet> <20000206101109.B16173@freebie.lemis.com> <389CB9FB.B128D712@ds.net>

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On Saturday,  5 February 2000 at 19:02:03 -0500, James A. Mutter wrote:
>>
>> As others have pointed out, you probably have /var on your root file
>> system.  You obviously didn't follow the book to the letter.  I
>> recommend a 32 MB root file system, which probably needs upgrading to
>> 40 MB, but never to 100 MB.  I do, however, recommend not to have a
>> separate /var file system, and on page 87 I explain what you need to
>> do.  It's probably best to reboot after doing these steps.  I'm
>> appending a plain text version.
>>
>
> I saw your explanation for moving /var to /usr/var, but what I didn't
> see was your reasoning for doing this.  I've always created a separate
> /var partition - size depends on the application.  Am I missing some
> subtle reason for _not_ doing this?

Yes.  You just stated it: "size depends on the application".  It's
very difficult to calculate the size in advance.  We had a long
discussion on this matter just a day or two ago, and we found that
some people get by with 4 MB /var (not worth making a separate file
system), while others (myself for example) have 1.5 GB.  No matter
what size you choose, you're liable to be wrong.

Greg
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