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Subject: Re: /boot at beginning of drive
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On Sunday 16 April 2006 22:30, Brendan Grossman wrote:
> > Having a separate /tmp slice is not a bad idea, combining /,
> > /usr, and /var is unless you're doing a very minimal install.
>
> I can separate /usr, but my goal is to combine /home and /var, or at least
> where mail and databases are stored, for reasons already mentioned.
>
> I suppose I could do this...
>
> /	5gb

That's far too  big,  my  /  has 166MB on it, including  a substantial amount 
of cruft.