From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 17 15:27:20 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA23857 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 15:27:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from server.local.sunyit.edu (A-T34.rh.sunyit.edu [150.156.210.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA23840 for ; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 15:27:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from perlsta@cs.sunyit.edu) Received: from localhost (perlsta@localhost) by server.local.sunyit.edu (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA03592 for ; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 18:32:21 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: server.local.sunyit.edu: perlsta owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 18:32:20 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein X-Sender: perlsta@server.local.sunyit.edu To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Partitioning suggestions? In-Reply-To: <19971117145827.11042@micron.mini.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk i wasn't going to get into this thread, however i feel that a 32meg root is NOT a good idea, 50megs is nice, but with 32megs i've come across problems of filling the root partition. -Alfred > Were I you, I'd merge the /tmp filesystem into swap, and then mount your > /tmp via MFS. You will notice much better performance on /tmp. Also, > personally, I always use a 32M root, especially when I have a /var filesystem, > and have never had space problems with root. > > > [ ... snip ... ] > > -- > Jonathan Mini Ingenious Productions > Software Development P.O. Box 5693, > Eugene, Or. 97405 > > "A child of five could understand this! Quick -- Fetch me a child of five." >