On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Alexander Pilipovsky<alexander.pilipov...@gmail.com> wrote: > But how many space on hard disk for it will be good?
This depends on your usage, of course, and for what purpose you expect to use /var. If you run a server with lots of logs, like a high-traffic web server, you may want to ensure /var/log is in a place with enough room. I use logrotate to archive and compress log files so they don't take up too much space. In my case I have my temp dir as /var/tmp (i think this is the default location), so things like ripping/encoding/burning a DVD image can use sometimes near 25G of temp space. Portage will also use (again, as default) for its temp dir, so any aborted compile sessions and giant packages like OpenOffice will need sufficient space as well. KDE pixmap cache is using 1.5G in my user's tmp directory alone. And of course portage itself stores the packages cache there. All of the above can be changed, of course, or links/mounted to different drives/partitions.... I think the rule of thumb that applies is: calculate the greatest amount of space you would ever realistically need and then double it. :)
