second disk partitions on UNIXPC
JIM PICKERING
jrp at rducky.uucp
Sun Dec 3 17:25:38 AEST 1989
I started playing with the partition sizes on my second hard disk
this weekend. I wanted to decrease the 'swap' partition (partition 1)
in order to increase partition 2. I use partition 1 as /tmp and
partition 2 as /usr/spool. When formatting the disk, the default
is 4000-5000 logical blocks (4-5 meg.). My second disk is only 30 meg.
so I would like to have as big as /usr/spool as possible (news really
eats disk space). What is a safe size for /tmp? Or what programs use
/tmp for a scratch area?
I suppose I could set partition 1 to 0 blocks and not mount /tmp. Is
there a performance increase with anything (compiler, etc.) by having
/tmp on the faster disk?
Thanks.
jim
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