Re: Partitioning question

On Wednesday 09 November 2011 03:26, Spiral conveyed the following to
alt.os.linux.suse...

If I were to move

/var
&
/temp

off an SSD drive, to a rotational disk (remember those?), would I have
to make a partition for each one, in order for the system to find it?

Yes, but I would recommend using tmpfs for "/tmp". tmpfs is a RAM-
based, pageable filesystem, which uses only as much RAM as what resides
on the filesystem. If you remove anything from it, the RAM is freed up
again.

By the way, it is not a good idea to store heavily variable filesystems
on an SSD anyway. ;-)

If so, how much space should I give them? Each is about a half gig now
(new installation) and I have plenty of gigs--for whatever...

tmpfs will by default allocate half of your RAM as the maximum, but you
can set it lower. The size of "/var" depends on what you're doing with
the machine. Look at how much space it consumes at present using "du"
or "df".

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