On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 01:34:37PM -0600, Bruce Sass wrote: > On Wed, 5 Jul 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > /var - 250 - 500++ MB Need can grow appreciably with large website, > > newsfeeds, databases, etc. > > Webspace, newsfeeds and databases aside, APT's cache takes a large chunk > of HD space... there have been reports of Potato installations failing > with /var at 1G, but working with a 2G /var partition. It really > depends on how you do the installation; if you try and install > everything in one shot you will need 2G, if you install in pieces > (e.g., one task at a time) you can get by with a /var of a few hundred > Mb.
Yet another argument for the incremental approach to building a system. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc. http://www.opensales.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Debian GNU/Linux rocks! http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ K5: http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0
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