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Giorgos Keramidas writes:

>  > After reading some pages of the handbook and the faq's I expericienced
>  > that making a slice for /var with the sice of 50mB ( i used 64mB) is
>  > not enough when during the installation i permitted th "Linux
>  > compatable".
>  
>  At install time, some of the largest packages may overflow a /var
>  partition that is so small.

	Not just at install time.  If you decide to install
applications using the ports system, some of them use /var for the
build process.  I've had builds die because there was insufficient
free space on /var.  (Mind you, I remember these being large/complex
applications - OpenOffice, Mozilla, Java - but even so.)  In my
opinion, given modern disk capacities 50mb is way too small.
	To register a data point:

huff@> df -h /var
Filesystem     Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/da0s1d    989M    169M    741M    19%    /var


					Robert Huff