On Sat, 18 Aug 2001 02:11:15 -0400 (EDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] insightfully noted: > What are /var, /opt and /tmp? I think I'd like to use all the different > types > of partitions to play around with learning more aspects of system > administration, is this a smart idea or just sort of silly? Thanks for > the help. ========================== I think it's time for a good linux book, or at least a read through some of the basic linux documentation available on line. /var is where logs, mail, messages usually go. I can at times grow quite rapidly. thus my suggestion to give yourself a bit more room on / if you're keeping var as part of that partition rather than separate. /opt is where third party software traditionally is put, though recently many distros (led by RH, I believe) now use /usr/local more often for that. If you put lots of software in /opt then you clearly will need either a separate partition for it or a larger / than 250mb. check out some documentation ;o) Mike -- "Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world." -- Kaiser Wilhelm _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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