Re: Symlinking /home and /tmp with bsdinstaller to save space

["George Georgalis" <george@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 02:37:29PM +0000, Jonathon McKitrick wrote:
>On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 02:48:18PM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
>: On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 01:18:56PM +0000, Jonathon McKitrick wrote:
>: > 
>: > I'm going to reinstall DFly from scratch onto my 4Gig laptop.  I'd rather
>: > not have separate partitions for /home and /var or any others that are
>: > absolutely necessary.
>: 
>: I *strongly* advice against having /tmp and /var on either / or /usr.
>
>Even for a standalone workstation?
>
>On my 4Gig HD, I just keep thinking there has to be a way to optimize the
>amount of space that is sitting there unused in /tmp and /var.
>

/
swap
/var
/usr

then symlink 

/var/tmp
/usr/home

/ swap and /var can be relitatively small.

// George


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