At 11:06 AM 1/20/00 -0500, George Sollish wrote:
>On my office i386 box I run 1.4.1 with the default plux X partition
>scheme, which puts /home and /var in / .  Not only does this
>result in a lot being written to /, but Netscape caches rapidly eat into
>the space.  FreeBSD 3.2 (at home) creates a separate /var and links /home
>to /usr/home.  This appears to be a better scheme, both for space and for
>maintaining a clean /. Is there a good reason not to do this in 1.4.1?

I am in the habit of putting user home directories (/home) in their own 
partition to prevent using up the space in / and it makes it easier 
(conceptually) to back up frequently.  I also put /tmp in it's own 
partition to prevent it from being a space hog and it *never* needs to be 
backed up.  Both of these needs are different than the space and backup 
needs of / or /usr so it make sense to me to put them in separate partitions.

But, do I put /var in it's own partition?  I often forget to so take this 
advice with a grain of salt. :-)

-=O=- Randy

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