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From: David E A Wilson
Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 00:00

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Dimitri Maziuk <emaziuk@alpha2.curtin.edu.au> writes:
>Don't forget that /tmp and /var (and everything else) are going into
>the root partition, too!  What happens is after you've filled 
>/var/catman with cached manpages etc. your gcc starts bombing out with
>"no space left", meaning "in /tmp". 

I just installed a Slackware 3.0 system and forgot about /var (I did remember
/tmp, /usr/src, /usr/local and /usr).

Oh well, back to the partition table.

>Having a small root partition is a very good idea, but probably not 
>for your first installation of Linux.

One odd thing - when shutting down my system complains about being unable
to run /usr/bin/sleep. It turns out slackware unmounts the local partitions
and then does a sleep 1...
-- 
David Wilson	Dept CompSci Uni Wollongong Australia	david@cs.uow.edu.au

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