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Date:      Wed, 28 Jan 1998 03:58:26 GMT
From:      jak@cetlink.net (John Kelly)
To:        andrew@pubnix.net
Cc:        freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Sendmail - low on space
Message-ID:  <34cfac75.10985109@mail.cetlink.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980127162021.21902F-100000@guardian.fortress.org>
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980127162021.21902F-100000@guardian.fortress.org>

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On Tue, 27 Jan 1998 16:24:55 -0500 (EST), Andrew Webster
<andrew@guardian.fortress.org> wrote:

>I'll jump in on this one as I've been bitten by the small /var more than

>I create my systems without a physical /var parition and symlink /var and
>/tmp into /usr/var and /usr/tmp respectively, this eliminates all
>problems, and you don't end up "wasting" lots of disk space for temporary
>files.

I do the same thing on every install.

>Can we make this the default of sysinstall?

I would like it too.  I see little benefit in a partition dedicated to
/var.

John






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