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- From: weave@apache.dtcc.edu (Ken Weaverling)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.m88k
- Subject: Making /var a separate partition
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 03:27:10 -0500
- Organization: Delaware Technical & Community College
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- Keywords: DG Data General AViiON
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- I have a Data General AViiON 4120. The default disk paritioning only
- gave me / and /usr with /var being in root of course. I have constant
- problems with mail, print spools, and other things filling up root.
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- Is there any problems with making /var a separate parition? I checked
- the rc3.d scripts and the only conflict I can see if stat in
- S113.update, which runs before S114.localfs is that S113 cleans up
- lock files and stuff in /var/mail and /var/spool/uucp. (Come to think
- of it, isn't /usr not mounted at that point either?)
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- I feel pretty safe in doing this, but I am the paranoid type too.
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- Thanks for any hints and pointers!
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- Weave's 10/90 recipe for insanity: Take one programmer, divide into portions:
- 10% programming consisting of equal parts in systems and applications plus
- admin duties broken down into 20% for Unix, 5% PRIMOS, 10% hardware & network,
- 35% DOS/Windows, 10% news, 5% postmaster, and 5% babysitting IRC kiddies.
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