On Sunday 18 January 2004 18:55, Roger Sherman wrote: > In reading over the Gentoo Handbook Installation Instructions, I saw > something about how /var should be bigger in a Gentoo system, but I can't > find that part today...any recommendations?
/var needs a bit of space because portage uses it (or /var/tmp/portage to be precise) to store temporary build files during installations. OpenOffice, for example requires c. 2,7 GB for it's temporary files. However, IMHO there's really no need to allocate huge amounts of space for /var. Portage needs the space only when it installs something and after the installation you can safely delete everything in /var/tmp/portage. For example I have only 5 GB for / (2 BG of which is currently free) and the rest 15 GB in /home. When I need to install something big, I just mount the home partition in /var/tmp/portage and thus have extra space for the temp files. (I also mount /usr/portage/distfiles (which stores the downloaded sources) in the bigger partition) So, I'd say that 1 GB for /var should be enough. You won't need to remount it with every small installation, and you won't have too much unusable hard drive space in there. (There really aren't many things more pointless than unused hard drive space) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
