On 12/12/05, Jan Krediet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At first: I'm a newbie when I am talking about FreeBSD or UNIX!
Welcome to the community! > For long time i had the wish to install BSD because I > experienced that UNIX or related versions are more > powerfull than OSses from Microsoft. > > So i decided a week ago, to download a FreeBSD vs.6 and to install it. Sounds great! > What i like to know from you is: is here something going > wrong or is the size, as written in the handbook (50mB) and the faq's, no > longer current in your FreeBSD vs.6? I'd say that the handbook should be updated, as 50MB is a little short. However, the size you would need for /var will very much depends upon what you plan on using this computer for. The heir(7) manpage will explain in detail what files usually lives inside /var, but to sum up its mostly log files, spool files and package information. Also /var/tmp is used to unpack packages in, which means it would quickly fill up if installing large packages. But this could easily be circumvented though. Point is: If you plan to run a mail or print server or any other server that will have large amounts of spool files lying around, you should increase your /var partition accordingly. Same goes for log files. If you plan on keeping those around for a long time, and run alot of servers that will produce lots of logs, increase /var to fit. > So i'm a little proud in understanding so quick at this age. You should be. Hope you have a fun time getting to know FreeBSD. Svein Halvor _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
