From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Jan 27 18:58:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA21681 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 18:58:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns2.cetlink.net (root@ns2.cetlink.net [209.54.54.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA21625 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 18:57:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jak@cetlink.net) Received: from hot1.auctionfever.com (ts1-cltnc-16.cetlink.net [209.54.58.16]) by ns2.cetlink.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA17349; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 21:57:48 -0500 (EST) From: jak@cetlink.net (John Kelly) To: andrew@pubnix.net Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail - low on space Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 03:58:26 GMT Message-ID: <34cfac75.10985109@mail.cetlink.net> References: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.01/16.397 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id SAA21654 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 27 Jan 1998 16:24:55 -0500 (EST), Andrew Webster wrote: >I'll jump in on this one as I've been bitten by the small /var more than >I create my systems without a physical /var parition and symlink /var and >/tmp into /usr/var and /usr/tmp respectively, this eliminates all >problems, and you don't end up "wasting" lots of disk space for temporary >files. I do the same thing on every install. >Can we make this the default of sysinstall? I would like it too. I see little benefit in a partition dedicated to /var. John