On Mon, 2008-06-23 at 17:46 -0400, Ken Schneider wrote:
Bob Williams pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
On Monday 23 June 2008 13:55:47 Florian Schäfer wrote:
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 2:44 PM, Bob Williams
wrote: I have both /tmp and /var/tmp here. /var/tmp is much bigger than /tmp. How can make sure all temporary files end up in /var/tmp? Both directories are intended for different purposes by the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard. Why do you want to merge them? Although, you can use a symlink or mess with sysconfig settings....
OK. What size would you recommend each directory should be?
Not intended to start a flame war.
Why bother? 20 years ago when disk drives were small ( not to mention expensive ) it was necessary to have separate partitions because drives just were not big enough for everything. Today that limitation does not exist. All that is really necessary today is two partitions, one for swap and one for /. Some people prefer to put /home on a separate partition. By using one large partition you eliminate all of the guess work.
What has size to do with it? Main reasons for having separate mount points and disks were and still are: 1) security (protecting system against runaway programs or sloppy users/admins) 2) speed (small but ultra fast disk for fast startup or intermediate results and otoh slow but huge disk for logs&data&homes) If neither of those mean anything to you (test systems): fine, just use "/". -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org