From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 12 13:50:56 2004 Return-Path: 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 80CE316A4CE for ; Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:50:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from mxfep01.bredband.com (mxfep01.bredband.com [195.54.107.70]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C070943D1D for ; Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:50:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from moak@bredband.net) Received: from bredband.net ([213.113.37.84] [213.113.37.84]) by mxfep01.bredband.com with ESMTP id <20040212215051.MTFA29344.mxfep01.bredband.com@bredband.net>; Thu, 12 Feb 2004 22:50:51 +0100 Message-ID: <402BF53A.1010308@bredband.net> Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 22:50:50 +0100 From: gaf User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (Windows/20040207) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ion-Mihai Tetcu References: <402BE37C.7070603@bredband.net> <20040212224916.30d1c768@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro> <402BEA75.3070809@bredband.net> <20040212232451.3fdc67e0@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro> In-Reply-To: <20040212232451.3fdc67e0@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit cc: Barbish3@adelphia.net cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /tmp full (newbie) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 21:50:56 -0000 Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: >On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 22:04:53 +0100 >gaf wrote: > > > >>I have read the handbook but have been following (Itīs easier to have a >>book in front of you when installing). The Complete FreeBSD 4th >>edition when installing, where Greg Lehey recommends the partitioning >>that I have running right now so..... >> >> > >HE DOES NOT. > > >/ 4G > >swap 800M > >/home 35G > >NOP. No way. > >What he says and you forgot to do is something about sym-linking /tmp to >/var/tmp, if memory serves. If you want to extent this to have symlinks like this: >/tmp --> /home/tmp >/usr --> /home/usr >/var --> /home/var >you can. But there is no reason to do so. >In fact the default setup is just the other way: >/home --> /usr/home >Please refer to hier(7) to see layout of FreeBSD. > >Grog's book was for a few years the only one available and it's my personal >favorite. Nevertheless the FreeBSD handbook is the official reference. > > > >>as a newbie how should I know which one is the most accurate? Now I >>know you ll say the handbook, so from now on I will follow the handbook. >> >> > >Read Grog's book, it makes a few times every cent you have spent on it. > > > >>Thanks for answering >>gaf >> >> > > > > I have the book in front of me.....sorry but there are nothing said about symlinks. It says: " Creating the file systems With these considerations in mind, weīll divide up the disk in the following manner: 4G for the root file system, which includes /usr and /var 512M swap space The rest of the disk for /home file system" Next is "Selecting distributions" I canīt figure out any other way to decipher this........do you???