Slices

[Svein Halvor Halvorsen]

On 12/12/05, Jan Krediet <J.Krediet at planet.nl> wrote:
> At first: I'm a newbie when I am talking about FreeBSD or UNIX!

Welcome to the community!


> For long time i had the wish to install BSD because I
> experienced that UNIX or related versions are more
> powerfull than OSses from Microsoft.
>
> So i decided a week ago, to download a FreeBSD vs.6 and to install it.

Sounds great!


> What i like to know from you is: is here something going
> wrong or is the size, as written in the handbook (50mB) and the faq's, no longer current in your FreeBSD vs.6?

I'd say that the handbook should be updated, as 50MB is a little
short. However, the size you would need for /var will very much
depends upon what you plan on using this computer for. The heir(7)
manpage will explain in detail what files usually lives inside /var,
but to sum up its mostly log files, spool files and package
information. Also /var/tmp is used to unpack packages in, which means
it would quickly fill up if installing large packages. But this could
easily be circumvented though.

Point is: If you plan to run a mail or print server or any other
server that will have large amounts of spool files lying around, you
should increase your /var partition accordingly. Same goes for log
files. If you plan on keeping those around for a long time, and run
alot of servers that will produce lots of logs, increase /var to fit.

> So i'm a little proud in understanding so quick at this age.

You should be. Hope you have a fun time getting to know FreeBSD.


Svein Halvor