Re: Sysinstall automatic filesystem size generation.

From: Dan Nelson (dnelson_at_allantgroup.com)
Date: 08/29/05

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    Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 22:57:29 -0500
To: "C. Michailidis" <dinom@balstonresearch.com>

    In the last episode (Aug 28), C. Michailidis said:
    > Did you ever see a 300 lb. bodybuilder with legs like pencils? It's
    > pretty funny. Now imagine a 199gb /usr with a 256mb /tmp /var and /,
    > look similar? This issue became apparent when I attempted to
    > portupgrade OpenOffice and the process failed, indicating that there
    > wasn't enough space in /var/tmp.... I have a 60gb disk drive and my
    > /var and /tmp are a lousey 256mb?!?!? Ugh! Please don't jump down
    > my throat on this one... I know, I know... I'm stupid, yes I should
    > have labelled the disk by hand. I probably should have installed the
    > entire system by some other incredibly painstaking method too,
    > perhaps I should have etched the bits onto the disk with a needle, a
    > spool of wire, a magnet, and a 9-volt battery - IDK.

    For anything over a 9gb disk, I just make one big / partition. If you
    sub partition, you'll always end up filling one (either /var or /tmp
    quickly or /usr eventually) and wish you had picked different sizes. 

    -- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com
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