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  • From: Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>
  • To: sm-users AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Users] /var space requirements
  • Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 17:38:15 +0000

Quoting "S. Barret Dolph" <wheds8 AT ms66.hinet.net>:
> My box has had the same partitions for over five years with
>
> / 1mb
> /swap 1024k
> /usr 6mb
> /home 10mb

I really hope those "mb" are "gb" and that "k" is "mb".

> If SM uses a lot of /var space should I have a separated /var partition? If
> so
> how large. I suppose I could just make the / bigger and add a boot partition
>
> but I only have Linux on my computer and never had problems with Lilo
> before.(Unless I screwed something up.)

On my system (I store the spell caches and tarballs for /every/ package) /var/
is 7.4 Gb, but if you don't store all the tarballs it's only about 1.2Gb with
logs, spell caches, grimoires (I have test, games, z-rejected, and my own
custom grimoire added). So to be safe, 2GB should do. I also install a lot of
packages and never run `gaze prune`, so you could probably get away with 1GB
if
you don't use both KDE and GNOME (which I do, along with a few others).

-sandalle

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