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Subject: Re: Change default dumpdir to /usr/crash?
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Thomas Quinot wrote:
> * Panagiotis Astithas, 2004-05-02 :
> 
> 
>>I think I would be conservative and suggest a 1 GB /var for now.
> 
> 
> What about computing a default /var size as a function of the available
> RAM? Would that be workable within sysinstall?
> 
> Thomas.
> 

I believe that sysinstall already computes the swap partition size based
on RAM, so computing /var also should be easy.  Patches are happily
accecpted =-)

Scott