From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 24 11:34:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from otter.mills-atl.com (dsl-64-192-140-77.telocity.com [64.192.140.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E7D637B400 for ; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 11:34:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jmills@localhost) by otter.mills-atl.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA15868; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 14:38:42 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: otter.mills-atl.com: jmills owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 14:38:42 -0400 (EDT) From: John Mills X-Sender: jmills@otter.mills-atl.com Reply-To: John Mills To: "Henning, Brian" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: root partition In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, Henning - On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Henning, Brian wrote: > I keep having a problem with filling up my root partition. I combine / and > /var with 150M of space. Is that enough space? I don't copy files to this > partition so I don't really know how it would fill up? Should I just create > a bigger partition or is there something I am missing here? Check where '/tmp' and '/var/spool' (sorry if that's a linuxism - I'm writing from a RH box.) are mounted. You can generate big files in these, so you may want to soft-link them to a partition (slice) with generous free space. In particular, when the partition holding '/tmp' fills up you can lose some important functions: 'xdm' and even 'login'. I would keep '/' modest in size and put the 'dump' elsewhere, but that's just my taste. That may give you some more ideas, one of which might actually solve your problem. Cheers. - John Mills To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message