Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 22:51:13 -0600 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> To: Nikolas Britton <freebsd@nbritton.org> Cc: kiffin.gish@planet.nl Subject: Re: Root directory filling up... Message-ID: <41BE7141.3030402@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <41BE477E.2080202@nbritton.org> References: <000001c4e052$8a046360$9900000a@ZGISH> <41BC81CF.1000201@nbritton.org> <41BDF27C.6010807@planet.nl> <41BE0F64.7060303@daleco.biz> <41BE477E.2080202@nbritton.org>
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Nikolas Britton wrote: > Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: > >> Kiffin Gish wrote: >> >> <snip basically whole thread, apologies Kiffin > > > > What edition of The Complete FreeBSD do you have? I find it hard to > believe that greg would advice against using the handbook's > recommendations but then I've never read his book, I got > Absolute BSD (Michael Lucas) last year for Christmas, and > may just be taking this out of context. I wonder if his edition is rather old. I seem to remember him [grog] mentioning, once upon a time (&& YMMV) that he had his reasons for doing it, and that it was a rather long time ago (the book is in what, 4th edition now?); obviously if you go back enough years, 4 Gb was a pretty substantial chunk of the available storage for most HDDs at that time .... KDK
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