From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 24 18:30:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (news-ma.rhein-neckar.de [193.197.90.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48E3115072 for ; Sat, 24 Apr 1999 18:30:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de) Received: from mips.rhein-neckar.de (uucp@localhost) by news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with bsmtp id DAA02946 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 25 Apr 1999 03:30:49 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de) Received: by mips.rhein-neckar.de id m10bCZX-000WyWC (Debian Smail-3.2.0.101 1997-Dec-17 #2); Sun, 25 Apr 1999 02:14:59 +0200 (CEST) From: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: Harddrives & Filesystems Date: 25 Apr 1999 02:14:56 +0200 Message-ID: <7ftmq0$tm8$1@mips.rhein-neckar.de> References: <199904222037.QAA19535@cc03du.unity.ncsu.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG wrote: > Use about 32mb for var. Depends on what you intend to do. I have a moderate local news spool, just what I read, and feel quite comfortable with 500MB for /var. For 32MB, I wouldn't bother with a separate file system at all. > About 1 gig makes a good plain workstation. You can't rebuild the system from source there. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de See another pointless homepage at . To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message