Re: re-thinking partitions

1997-11-17 Thread Philippe Troin
On Mon, 17 Nov 1997 11:17:51 GMT Otavio Exel ([EMAIL PROTECTED] ) wrote: > > > > > - are symlinks really fast? > > > > >Quite, except on NFS. > > > > could you be more specific? could you describe a situation where > > > symlinks would slow-down things and a possible solution eliminating > > >

Re: re-thinking partitions

1997-11-17 Thread Otavio Exel
> > > > - are symlinks really fast? > > >Quite, except on NFS. > > could you be more specific? could you describe a situation where > > symlinks would slow-down things and a possible solution eliminating > > thesymlink? > Normally, no NFS data is cached on the client, which means that for > a sm

Re: re-thinking partitions

1997-11-14 Thread Otavio Exel
Dale Martin wrote: > > Daniel Mashao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > why not put /var and /tmp in the same root partition? > > When you run out of space on your root partition while compiling, it's a > real pain. I've had it happen. I've never run out of space on /var, or on > / if I don't have

Re: re-thinking partitions

1997-11-14 Thread Otavio Exel
Daniel Mashao wrote: > > On 14 Nov 1997, Dale Martin wrote: > > > Philippe Troin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > This is a lot of space wasted unless you have large spool directories > > > (news/mail). For a reasonable single-user station, 64MB should be > > > largely enough on /var. /tmp i

Re: re-thinking partitions

1997-11-14 Thread Dale Martin
Daniel Mashao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > why not put /var and /tmp in the same root partition? When you run out of space on your root partition while compiling, it's a real pain. I've had it happen. I've never run out of space on /var, or on / if I don't have /tmp on it. So, I have /tmp soft

Re: re-thinking partitions

1997-11-14 Thread Daniel Mashao
On 14 Nov 1997, Dale Martin wrote: > Philippe Troin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > This is a lot of space wasted unless you have large spool directories > > (news/mail). For a reasonable single-user station, 64MB should be > > largely enough on /var. /tmp is left to your choice (16 is a good

Re: re-thinking partitions

1997-11-14 Thread Dale Martin
Philippe Troin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is a lot of space wasted unless you have large spool directories > (news/mail). For a reasonable single-user station, 64MB should be > largely enough on /var. /tmp is left to your choice (16 is a good > number). I would find 16M for /tmp WAY to

Re: re-thinking partitions

1997-11-14 Thread Philippe Troin
On Fri, 14 Nov 1997 10:24:10 -0200 Otavio Exel ([EMAIL PROTECTED] br) wrote: > - are symlinks really fast? Quite, except on NFS. You really should worry about it unless you're a performance freak. > - I read somewhere that "500mb for /var and /tmp" is fine; > what exactly does that mean? two