On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Collins Richey wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 23:02:14 -0300
> Norberto BENSA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ date ; echo ${Collins Richey}
> > Wednesday 18 June 2003 09:49 pm
> >
> > > On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 00:55:22 -0400 (EDT)
> > >
> > > "Rev. Jeffrey Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Adam Dunstan wrote:
> > > > > OT: so how big should a /tmp partision be?
> > > >
> > > > Mine's 500MB and it's way too big. When I reinstall my server
> > > > (datavibe),/tmp will be on tmpfs and I'll just put the 500mb to
> > > > extra swap instead.
> > >
> > > Perfectly OK if you don't ever plan to emerge openoffice. That
> > > emerge requires >= 2G temp space!
> >
> > Errrr... emerge uses /var/tmp ;-)
> >
>
> Yep, I thought of that a few minutes ago. Which means that he needs
> an available 2 gig in his / filesystem instead of /tmp.
Yeah, I was just about to correct you on that, but Mr. Bensa got you
first. All /tmp is used for on my machines are lockfiles, screen fifos,
edit buffers, and the mysql socket... it doesn't need to be big, at least
not in my installation. Furthermore, I run an "mke2fs -j" on it each time
my machine boots (it's set to noauto so it doesn't mount it before i
re-create the filesystem on it).
Unfortunately, you're still wrong.
My / is rarely larger than 1gb.
/var, however, is frequently 10.
These days, now that I have regular bcackups, i've taken to using mount -o
bind to mount directories from single big partitions into places like
/var, /var/tmp, and /var/log. The main reason I used seperate partitions
(and thus filesystems) before was to avoid trashing the entire system in
case a filesystem somehow corrupted itself, but these days I have copies,
so I'm not so worried about it.
Can we please kill this thread now? Someone replied to an existing thread
when creating this one (ugh, don't you people use -real- mail readers?!)
and it's making everything ugly in my threaded view.
-j
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