Am Freitag 12 Juni 2009 21:56:04 schrieb Alan McKinnon: > There's a few guidlelines one can give (but only a few). The variables tend > to be large than the amounts with guidelines though. > > /var/tmp/portage should be at least 1G on a modern system, 6G+ if building > mozilla stuff and OOo is something you intend to do.
BTW: OOo 3.1 seems to raise the bar to 8.5G.
> portage cache is about 200M
> ccache needs as much space as it was given in make.conf
> /var/mail or /var/spool/mail is completely dependant on number of user and
> how much mail they get. Often none for a desktop and huge amounts for a
> mail store.
> mysql and postgres need as much as the amount of data intended to be
> stored. log space is very big or not too much depending on what you do.
And, not to forget, one can always either resize it later (if LVM is used) or
simply mount more space below /var, which also gives the opportunity to use
different filesystems, depending on what kind of data is stored.
Bye...
Dirk
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