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Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: |
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> On Friday 12 June 2009, 12:58, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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>> The original question was "how big should /var be?" and the correct |
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>> answer to that question is "mu" (google it) |
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>> If we had the output of "df -h" and "du -sh /var/*" plus a description |
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>> of what the machine actually does, some general advice could be given |
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>> to the OP. As it stands with the information given, the only useful |
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>> answer is "you'll have to work that out yourself" which is what I said |
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>> right back at the beginning. |
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> The OP might be a newbie with little or no idea of how things work in a |
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> mailing list like this. Instead of the "you'll have to work that out |
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> yourself" answer, which is a correct answer strictly speaking, but not |
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> very useful to the OP, one could have asked "can you provide more |
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> information on this and that, so people can help you better? And please, |
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> in the future, remember that the more information you provide, the |
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> better answer you are likely to get." (which, btw, is what you did |
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> anyway in later replies). That would be a more useful answer imho, |
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> because it will educate (or try to educate) the OP a little more, which |
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> hopefully will result in him asking questions in a better way in the |
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> future. |
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> Just my 2c. |
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Alan's point is, there is no way for us to know that. Example, I |
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sometimes use http-replicator on my machine which is placed in /var. |
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Therefore, that alone could need 2 to 3GBs. If you use ccache, then add |
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some more. Also, doesn't portage use /vat to compile? If so, then that |
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is some more space that would be needed. Does the person use OOo from |
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source or binary? Is this a web server of some sort? Is it going to |
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be used for a DVR type system? |
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A even better question would be this, how much space does the OP have to |
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begin with? I have two 80GB drives. The OP may have some huge 300GB |
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drive. |
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I dont' have any idea what the answer to most of those are so no one |
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really can answer the question yet. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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