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Date:      Sun, 04 Nov 2001 05:24:26 -0800
From:      Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca>
To:        Jochem Kossen <j.kossen@home.nl>
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: sysinstall/disklabel and auto-default values for partition  sizes
Message-ID:  <200111041324.fA4DOfK68347@cwsys.cwsent.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 03 Nov 2001 23:31:26 %2B0100." <20011103233126.A1099@jochem.dyndns.org> 

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In message <20011103233126.A1099@jochem.dyndns.org>, Jochem Kossen 
writes:
> Hello,
> 
> Sysinstall(disklabel) still chooses a size of 20 MB for the /var
> partition. This is, in my opinion, way too small since the installing of
> packages uses /var/tmp (maybe adding a separate /var/tmp partition to
> the defaults would be interesting?).
> 
> I've mentioned this also before the 4.4-RELEASE, but then there was too
> little time to change it, and i just took a look at -STABLE, and it
> isn't fixed there yet...
> 
> Hereby, again the suggestion to re-evaluate those values.
> 
> Also, maybe it's nice to have just one /tmp or /var/tmp partition as
> explained in the tuning(7) manpage?

What tuning says about syminking /var/tmp to /tmp is confusing.  
Initially it says that /tmp should be symlinked to /var/tmp, then it 
talks about dedicating a partition for temporary storage which will 
have the advantages of not blowing up critical system such as mail, 
logging, etc.  You cannot have a dedicated temporary file partition 
which protects mail, logging, etc. from temporary file blow up with 
/tmp symlinked to /var/tmp.  Tuning(7) should initially say that 
/var/tmp should be symlinked to /tmp.  This would be the correct 
recommendation and it would be consistent with the rest of the 
discussion about /tmp and /var/tmp.


Regards,                         Phone:  (250)387-8437
Cy Schubert                        Fax:  (250)387-5766
Team Leader, Sun/Alpha Team   Internet:  Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca
Open Systems Group, ITSD
Ministry of Management Services
Province of BC




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