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.