You can install the firewall on a 500 Mb but then you should eventually reconfigure the rotates because otherwise the system will soon become unusable with a "lack of free space" error messages ...
The logs take much space after a while ... so that's why you have to redefine the log rotates ... cheers, >bascule <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i'm afraid i'm still not being clear, i'm not asking how much space mnf takes > up, or how much it will use after being installed, but, how much is necessary > in order to install it in the first place, as i have said before, despite > having 1gb over two equal disks and only 200mb actually filled, an upgrade of > snf using cooker failed due to 'lack of space', clearly the upgrade process > required far more space on my disks than i was actually going to choose > packages for, i'm trying to ascertain the smallest disk i need to install mnf > on, i'm aware that post-install space is used up by urpmi and var, that is > why i currently have /var on a separate disk, however since mnf is only > taking up 200mb of space i would like to remove one of the disks for > something else and put /var on a smaller partition, if mnf won't install on > one 500mb disk, or future upgrades via a cooker upgrade or just using urpmi > will still fail then i can't, because i'll need to have the spare space even > if i'm not using it so that i can keep the system uptodate, > perhaps i'm the only one who had an 'out of space' error trying to upgrade > from cooker and that is causing the confusion, > when i refer to (s)mnf i mean selecting snf-en only and letting the install > continue from there, nothing that is not provided by that, > > bascule > > On Friday 11 October 2002 11:33 am, you wrote: > > > There is no answer like "you need that amount of Mb on the hard drive in > > > order to use this firewall" as this will depend on the firewall > > > configuration. > > > > My advice : > > If you lack disk space : > > - turn OFF the IDS ; > > - turn OFF the proxy server ; > > - do not log packets (default policies log the rejected packets) ; > > > > Amaury -- Florin http://www.mandrakesoft.com http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~florin/
