From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 3 2: 4:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from isy.liu.se (isy.liu.se [130.236.48.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D79F637B503 for ; Tue, 3 Oct 2000 02:04:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lagrange.isy.liu.se (lagrange.isy.liu.se [130.236.49.127]) by isy.liu.se (8.10.0/8.10.0) with ESMTP id e9394Vn26103; Tue, 3 Oct 2000 11:04:31 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <651128783.20001003074429@isuisse.com> Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 11:04:30 +0200 (CEST) From: Micke Josefsson To: Michellek Subject: RE: Partitioning and future upgrades [newbie] Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 03-Oct-00 Michellek wrote: > Hello All, > > Are there any nuances to partitioning in terms of future upgrades? > Is the default auto-partitioning formula during the installation > set-up good enough for a newbie? > > As a nebie who had used Mac OS and some NT prevousely I liked the > smoothness of installation very much. Thank you very much. > > best, yuri > I would say it is, but you might want a large /var since there is where all (possibly large) spool-files go before being printed. A postscript-file of tens of megabytes might cause problem if /var fills up. A solution (if staying with the defaults) is to make symlinks from /var/spool to /usr-somewhere, which normally is quite large. The same goes for /tmp. I believe this is a fairly common practice. /Micke ---------------------------------- Michael Josefsson, MSEE mj@isy.liu.se This message was sent by XFMail running on FreeBSD 3.5-STABLE ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message