[geeks] Solaris 8 partitioning

[Gregory Leblanc]

On Thu, 2002-03-14 at 22:21, Peter L. Wargo wrote:
> On Thursday, March 14, 2002, at 06:37 , Michael Schiller wrote:
> 
> > So I guess my more 'traditional' method of partitioning a drive isn't
> > needed either? I usually have either a 512m or 256m / a 512m swap a 512m
> > or 256m /var and a /usr that fills the rest of the drive. I don't
> > normally make a /export/home partition preferring to put the user home
> > dirs in /usr/home/
> 
> The general feeling around work is that a separation of / and /usr is 
> not necessary anymore.  /var is good to break out on servers, since it 
> can fill.  Also, if I have a large system (say, over 8G of RAM), I like 
> to make sure that /var/crash can handle large coredumps.

Hehe, yeah, man, I have to worry about those 8GB machines like all the
time.  They don't even let me touch machines that can count to 8GB...
	Greg

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