From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 2 14:04:16 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60D621065677 for ; Fri, 2 Jul 2010 14:04:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@qeng-ho.org) Received: from fileserver.home.qeng-ho.org (blue.qeng-ho.org [217.155.128.241]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9A8C8FC17 for ; Fri, 2 Jul 2010 14:04:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fileserver.home.qeng-ho.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fileserver.home.qeng-ho.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o62E4AX0054306; Fri, 2 Jul 2010 15:04:10 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from freebsd@qeng-ho.org) Message-ID: <4C2DF1DA.2020503@qeng-ho.org> Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2010 15:04:10 +0100 From: Arthur Chance User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.10) Gecko/20100628 Thunderbird/3.0.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bruce Cran References: <20100701212112.GA28138@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <4C2D9659.3060208@infracaninophile.co.uk> <20100702131315.00007c89@unknown> In-Reply-To: <20100702131315.00007c89@unknown> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /boot is full after running "make installkernel" on FreeBSD 8.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2010 14:04:16 -0000 On 07/02/10 13:13, Bruce Cran wrote: > I have a task on my TODO list to increase the sizes of the partitions in > sysinstall: for example / goes to 1GB, /var to 4GB. I hope to commit > the code in the next couple of weeks. As a matter of idle curiosity with a bit of education thrown in, why 4GB for /var? The last time I installed a new machine I made / 1GB as I'd found out from a previous install that 512MB wasn't really enough, and then decided to make /var bigger than the Handbook said as well and made it 3GB. This has turned out to be total overkill: arthur@fileserver> df -h /var Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad10s1d 2.9G 205M 2.5G 8% /var I'm sure my use of this machine is very simple and nowhere near as large as other people's but a leap of 4-16 times what it currently suggests in the Handbook seems a bit excessive, especially if people are installing onto older kit. OTOH, playing devil's advocate with myself, disks are huge these days so why not?