Right, my point is still that you may find that you need it for:
a) web proxy caching;
b) dns caching;
c) receiving mail (if you do that);
I built a standalone box, never intended any of the rest and had to
rebuild it after 3 days because I'd made /var only 50 MB.
On Sat, 27 Feb 1999, rude bwoy wrote:
> agreed - but i'm all alone on my machine (thank god)
> - it's good 2 hear other opinions on this - as i'm just
> winging it - it may work out that my 20MB iz 2 small
> and i gotta start jumping through hoops
>
> thanx 4 u're input...
>
>
> Deirdre Saoirse wrote:
>
> > 20 meg is REALLY light for a /var partition, though it depends on what
> > dist you're using. On my laptop, with virtually no net services that
> > depend on /var, on a FRESH install, I've used 26 mb. That's NO mail, NO
> > cache, NO logs, no nothing.
> >
> > I would suggest more like 60-80 megs, more if it's a production server
> > with heavy logs and/or mail.
> >
> > On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Mike Carter wrote:
> >
> > > > +----------------------+
> > > > | |
> > > > | 20MEG Linux Native |
> > > > | (var Partition) |
> > > > | |
> > > > +----------------------+
> > > > | |
> > > > | 128MEG Linux swap |
> > > > | (swap Partition) |
> > > > | |
> > > > +----------------------+
> >
> > _Deirdre * http://disclaimer.deirdre.org * http://www.deirdre.net
> > "I would rather choose to have my leg bitten off than to buy NT"
> > Rob Narberes, Information Systems Manager, DNA Plant Technologies Corp
> > as quoted in (!) Computerworld
>
>
>
_Deirdre * http://disclaimer.deirdre.org * http://www.deirdre.net
"I would rather choose to have my leg bitten off than to buy NT"
Rob Narberes, Information Systems Manager, DNA Plant Technologies Corp
as quoted in (!) Computerworld
