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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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