Hi, On Sunday 08 June 2003 01:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, 7 Jun 2003 16:39:11 +0200 > > "Hemmann, Volker Armin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > You should put /tmp and /var on own partitions. /tmp because everybody > > is allowed to fill it up.. and a full /-partition is no fun. /var is > > also prone to become huge.. so a seperate partition reduces the risk > > of annoying problems. > > > > /home on a own partition is a wise choice, because it is easy to > > reinstall your whole system, without damaging your precious data. > > How big did you make your partitions? specifically, /home, /var and > /tmp? I am fixing to do the same when I have a day off from work, I have > a secondary drive (/dev/hdc) that's going bad that has a different > distro on it, so I am fixing to move the old win drive (/dev/hda) to > it's place and put a brand new shiny 80gb on /dev/hda, install gentoo > on it, then back up/dev/hdb and slice it up for /home and /var and /tmp. > I figure I can chroot-install gentoo on the new drive so I won't have > too much down time. /dev/hda6 3.4G 1.7G 1.7G 50% /tmp /dev/hdb1 3.8G 1.7G 2.1G 46% /var /dev/hdb3 12G 9.5G 1.9G 84% /home /tmp and /var are very 'full', lots of undeleted tmp-stuff... If you realy use your installation, /home can't be big enough... (imho of course). Glück Auf, Volker -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
