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From: jrp@rducky.uucp (JIM PICKERING)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general
Subject: second disk partitions on UNIXPC
Message-ID: <1989Dec3.062538.9719@rducky.uucp>
Date: 3 Dec 89 06:25:38 GMT
Organization: Technical Solutions, Inc.
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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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