Re: Two Questions

[Tobias Weingartner <weingart@wolfram.com>]

On Friday, May 15, Alex Kilimmik wrote:
> 
> I just have a comple questions.  Most importantly, is the 2.3 release
> available for download yet?  I've been seeing a lot of talk about it on
> this list but can't find it on the FTP sites.

It will be, sometime.  Buy a CD.  Get the cool artwork, and the even cooler
stickers.  Have one to call your own.  Be a supporter.  Be cool.  Do the deed.
You get the idea...


> Secondly, what do you recommend for the partitions in the disklabels?

A filesystem with data?  ;-)


> I've heard recommendations to setup a FS for /home, /var, /tmp, etc,
> problem being I don't know how much space to allocate for each.  Just
> wondering if a kinds soul out there can help me out.

Ahh, I believe that this information is provided (and up-to-date) on the
documentation provided with the CD.  That being said, my current setup is:

natasha:182> df
Filesystem             1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/sd0a                  98543    41157    52459    44%    /
/dev/sd0e                  98543     5126    88490     5%    /var
/dev/sd0f                 594511   387300   177486    69%    /usr
/dev/sd0d                 495599   270553   200267    57%    /usr/src
/dev/sd0g                 595215   140777   424678    25%    /usr/obj
/dev/sd0h                2168026  1621780   437845    79%    /home

With /tmp mounted on "swap" type thing-ma-bob...

--Toby.