Jonathan Walther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > With Debian distributions, and small disks, I have found this to always be > sufficient: > > / 32M > /var 96M > swap 32M or more. > /usr all the rest
> /home is a symlink to /usr/home > /tmp is a symlink to /var/tmp So what happens to the stuff in /var/tmp on reboot? /var/tmp is supposed to be preserved across reboots and /tmp isn't. Some programs (e.g. vi) rely on this behaviour? BTW, your /var might not be big enough to handle an upgrade from slink to potato. (Depending on whether the source of the packages is net or CD, I think.) Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED]