From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 12 14:50:25 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org 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 3BB9E16A41F for ; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 14:50:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sveinhal@gmail.com) Received: from xproxy.gmail.com (xproxy.gmail.com [66.249.82.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F71043D5E for ; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 14:50:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sveinhal@gmail.com) Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id t13so1002439wxc for ; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 06:50:23 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=fzvV4u3B3R2XFfgVDY9oFchNGiLTiY46LHt4EdX+yyt16T2M2wKDehzyfdbT3DOs6LvUI1HfJhT8Kp/gZEB9CvN7LbRWzdw25gDrl3SjNHY/pQ0nreqabIO7ScbGNIB5yM6OiXB332cef+UGiZpEjQxjD6sqorgFmt31NPWZgo0= Received: by 10.70.126.2 with SMTP id y2mr8156903wxc; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 06:50:22 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.70.105.11 with HTTP; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 06:50:21 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 15:50:21 +0100 From: Svein Halvor Halvorsen Sender: sveinhal@gmail.com To: Jan Krediet In-Reply-To: <000601c5ff28$9fb71e00$46933c50@Medion> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <000601c5ff28$9fb71e00$46933c50@Medion> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Slices X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 14:50:25 -0000 On 12/12/05, Jan Krediet wrote: > At first: I'm a newbie when I am talking about FreeBSD or UNIX! Welcome to the community! > For long time i had the wish to install BSD because I > experienced that UNIX or related versions are more > powerfull than OSses from Microsoft. > > So i decided a week ago, to download a FreeBSD vs.6 and to install it. Sounds great! > What i like to know from you is: is here something going > wrong or is the size, as written in the handbook (50mB) and the faq's, no= longer current in your FreeBSD vs.6? I'd say that the handbook should be updated, as 50MB is a little short. However, the size you would need for /var will very much depends upon what you plan on using this computer for. The heir(7) manpage will explain in detail what files usually lives inside /var, but to sum up its mostly log files, spool files and package information. Also /var/tmp is used to unpack packages in, which means it would quickly fill up if installing large packages. But this could easily be circumvented though. Point is: If you plan to run a mail or print server or any other server that will have large amounts of spool files lying around, you should increase your /var partition accordingly. Same goes for log files. If you plan on keeping those around for a long time, and run alot of servers that will produce lots of logs, increase /var to fit. > So i'm a little proud in understanding so quick at this age. You should be. Hope you have a fun time getting to know FreeBSD. Svein Halvor