[luau] HardDisc Partitioning

[Dan George]

On Sunday 28 July 2002 09:05, you wrote:
> 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

  Shouldnt the root or USR folder be the largest?