Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 00:06:55 -0000 From: "David Reid" <dreid@jetnet.co.uk> To: <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Size of / partition? Message-ID: <00b201c18ffc$ba2f7f10$7500a8c0@goliath> References: <049001c18ffb$b4ce5970$0e01a8c0@mark>
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Thanks for all the replies! When I reinstall I'll be sure to follow advice from most of you and set it to above 100M. Thanks for the other suggestions about cleaning etc. david > David, > > Old kernel and modules may be filling your /. You can safely delete > /kernel.old and /modules.old. You can also safely clean out /tmp which > technically should be cleaned during reboots. Also if you store anything > in root's home directory, /root, it would be taking space in /. The > defaults for auto disk labeling pick 100MB for / and 20MB for /var even > on modern 10 and 20GB hard drives. You may be better off straying from > the defaults and being generous if you have a large disk. For example I > generally choose 1GB /, 1GB swap, 3GB /var, and the rest to /usr. This > ought to be plenty for tracking -STABLE, running a mail server, running > a MySQL server, and just about any other application IMHO. > > Mark > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of David Reid > Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 4:33 PM > To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Size of / partition? > > Just cvsup'd to stable and I've almost run out of room on /! How big > should > I create it when I reinstall as I now don't have enough to do another > build. > > bash-2.04$ df -k > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/ad0s2a 49583 44564 1053 98% / > /dev/ad0s2f 2646093 1830324 604082 75% /usr > /dev/ad0s2e 19815 8212 10018 45% /var > procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc > > david > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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