From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 23 21: 0:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BFC837B406 for ; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 21:00:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pioneernet.net (mail.pioneernet.net [207.115.64.224]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADFA443E4A for ; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 21:00:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chip@wiegand.org) Received: from chip.wiegand.org [66.114.152.128] by pioneernet.net with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.06) id A05635250096; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 21:00:22 -0700 Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 21:00:29 -0700 From: Chip Wiegand To: Lowell Gilbert Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: can't find certain doc Message-Id: <20021023210029.20ed9f5d.chip@wiegand.org> In-Reply-To: <44adl4h58q.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <200210231744.g9NHic724712@clunix.cl.msu.edu> <44adl4h58q.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Organization: Alternative Operating Systems X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.2claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.7) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Lowell Gilbert wrote this stuff on 23 Oct 2002 23:42:45 -0400: > Jerry McAllister writes: > > > But, no matter what they try to tell you, 150 MB is awfully > > small for the root partition now days. > > Or, looking at it a different way, 150 MB *used* to be > really small, but is now quite big, because /var and /tmp > should probably not be on it. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > What's most interesting, I find, is that this machine get very little use, it's primarily a backup of a web site on an isp's server, and occasionally I'll copy files I'm working on to it via windoze network neighborhood. I rarely actually log into the box, then only as user, so even more rarely use the su account. I have always symlinked /var and /tmp to /usr/var and /usr/tmp on my setups. -- Chip Wiegand computer Services Simrad, Inc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message