[LBo] /var/tmp directory

[Lonnie Mullenix]

On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 09:58 -0500, Billy Pollifrone wrote:
> Andrew Henry wrote:
> > my system with a /tmp partition?  Is it feasable to make /tmp a symbolic
> > link to /var/tmp so that I can create  one partition for /var and not
> > have to create two separate partitions for both /tmp and /var?
> 
> Yes. That is a popular thing to do.
> 
> The point of /var was to have files that changed often on servers or
> other multiuser setups. IIRC FreeBSD still has /var and /var/tmp and
> /tmp points to /var/tmp symbolically.
> 
> I've done your idea, but not to that extreme. I have /, /home and swap
> partitions.
> 
> -- 

lonnie at gentoo ~ $ df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda5             5.6G  258M  5.0G   5% /
udev                  502M  184K  502M   1% /dev
/dev/hda1              56M   13M   41M  24% /boot
/dev/hda6              40G   11G   29G  28% /home
/dev/hda7              13G  6.5G  5.8G  53% /usr
/dev/hda8             9.2G  591M  8.2G   7% /var
/dev/hda9             6.4G  748M  5.4G  13% /opt
/dev/hdb1              39G   16G   23G  41% /storage
shm                   502M     0  502M   0% /dev/shm

And then, some of use get totally carried away with ourselves.  Like to
keep stuff separated, video and audio, etc.  And, since it is relatively
easy to set the default download points, having a large storage, or what
have you, partition, works quite well.  Same idea with the large /home.

Later all.

Lonnie

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