Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 11:04:30 +0200 (CEST) From: Micke Josefsson <mj@isy.liu.se> To: Michellek <Michellek@isuisse.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Partitioning and future upgrades [newbie] Message-ID: <XFMail.001003110430.mj@isy.liu.se> In-Reply-To: <651128783.20001003074429@isuisse.com>
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On 03-Oct-00 Michellek wrote: > Hello All, > > Are there any nuances to partitioning in terms of future upgrades? > Is the default auto-partitioning formula during the installation > set-up good enough for a newbie? > > As a nebie who had used Mac OS and some NT prevousely I liked the > smoothness of installation very much. Thank you very much. > > best, yuri > I would say it is, but you might want a large /var since there is where all (possibly large) spool-files go before being printed. A postscript-file of tens of megabytes might cause problem if /var fills up. A solution (if staying with the defaults) is to make symlinks from /var/spool to /usr-somewhere, which normally is quite large. The same goes for /tmp. I believe this is a fairly common practice. /Micke ---------------------------------- Michael Josefsson, MSEE mj@isy.liu.se This message was sent by XFMail running on FreeBSD 3.5-STABLE ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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