Active servers (especially Web and mail servers) may need extra room in /var/ for log
files. Mail servers also use this space for the mail queue, and the default mail system also
stores incoming mail here (you may also want to consider making /var/mail/ a separate
partition in these cases).
Web browsers such as Mozilla use /tmp/ for storing files while they are downloaded.
This file system must be big enough to hold any large files that you want to download
through there, plus any other files that may be there at the same time.
Note that with the multiuser partitioning scheme, the /home/ partition generally ends up receiving
most of the space on larger disks. This usually makes it a good place to ???borrow??? space from when
you want to make other partitions larger. However, because partman (the partitioning tool used by
the Debian installer) has already mapped out the partitions, you actually need to delete /home/ and
then re-add it after you increase the size of the other partition. If there are other partitions between
/home/ and the one that you are increasing in size, you also need to delete them, and then add
them back in an appropriate order.
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10. If a network connection was not configured during stage 1, you will be given the chance
to configure a dial-up PPP connection to an Internet service provider.
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