~kurt <actinouranium@earthlink.net> says:
>Keith Keller <kkeller-usenet@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> wrote:
>>
>> that /var is not very full yet, the only issue is accomodating / and
>> /opt. So 5GB is still way overkill. If the OP anticipates /var filling

>I remember running out of hard drive space when all the KDE stuff was
>put in /opt. I guess it isn't in /opt anymore - I still keep it as a separate
>partition now days because I found some other uses for it....

The secret was to keep /opt on the outside rings of the hard drive,
where the bits are longer.

cordially, as always,

rm