[luau] HardDisc Partitioning

[MonMotha]

W. Wayne Liauh wrote:
> Below is the HD partitioning in my newly installed RedHat 7.3.
> 
> I am planning to re-install Red Hat and add 2 GB to /home and /usr each 
> (b/c I will need to install Win4Lin by creating a Windows "partition" in 
> /home).  I plan to cut  the root and tmp partitions to 1 GB each.
> 
> Any comments?
> 
> 
> Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda6              2522048     95608   2298324   4% /
> /dev/hda1               147766      8965    131172   7% /boot
> /dev/hda3              5036316    103112   4677372   3% /home
> none                    257180         0    257180   0% /dev/shm
> /dev/hda5              2522048     89340   2304592   4% /tmp
> /dev/hda2              5036316   2003808   2776676  42% /usr
> /dev/hda8             13756872     87112  12970936   1% /var
> 

Just one, why is your /var so big?  at 13.5GB it's the biggest partition 
on your system while being one of the least used.  Unless you are 
running a mail server or news server, /var is generally only used to 
store logs and some config files.

--MonMotha