Hi,

can somebody post the result of du -h /var from a pretty vanilla 10.0 installation? The reason I am asking is I want to determine if it would be feasible to mount /var on a usb flash (512MB) for a silent server where I would like to suspend the hd. On 10.1, /var is more than 512MB, and quite a lot of the space is used by zmd . That's a bad idea. /var contains log files, spool files as well as both the utmp and wtmp files. You can certainly contain the size of the log files by removing the

On Friday 11 August 2006 10:05 am, Claes at work wrote: old logs, wtmp and some other garbage. -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9

On Friday 11 August 2006 09:05, Claes at work wrote: Hi, can somebody post the result of du -h /var from a pretty vanilla 10.0 installation? The reason I am asking is I want to determine if it would be feasible to mount /var on a usb flash (512MB) for a silent server where I would like to suspend the hd. On 10.1, /var is more than 512MB, and quite a lot of the space is used by zmd . Thanks, Claes ********************************************************************** SuSE Linux 9.3 (i586) superking:~ # du -sh /var 234M /var SUSE LINUX 10.1 (i586) bender:~ # du -sh /var 253M /var bender:~ # du -sh /var/run/zmd;du -sh /var/lib/zmd;du -sh /var/cache/zmd 0 /var/run/zmd 12M /var/lib/zmd 0 /var/cache/zmd What is expected to be the advantage of using a removeable flash drive for mounting /var?

Fri, 11 Aug 2006, by claesatwork@gmail.com:

Hi,

can somebody post the result of du -h /var from a pretty vanilla 10.0 installation? The reason I am asking is I want to determine if it would be feasible to mount /var on a usb flash (512MB) for a silent server where I would like to suspend the hd. On 10.1, /var is more than 512MB, and quite a lot of the space is used by zmd .

For a workstation system: $ df -h /var Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/system-lv2 5.0G 1.1G 4.0G 22% /var But there's no such thing as a "vanilla" SUSE install I think, this figure here isn't even remotely comperable to the server I admin at $DAYJOB, which is also "vanilla" 10.0. Be adviced though, that flashdisks are not suiteable to be written many times. They typically can be used for 10s of thousands of writes cycles, not many millions like normal drives. I would suggest that you at least write logs to a remote syslog daemon. Theo -- Theo v. Werkhoven Registered Linux user# 99872 http://counter.li.org ICBM 52 13 26N , 4 29 47E. + ICQ: 277217131 SUSE 9.2 + Jabber: muadib@jabber.xs4all.nl Kernel 2.6.8 + See headers for PGP/GPG info. Claimer: any email I receive will become my property. Disclaimers do not apply.