Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 10:23:01 -0400 From: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /boot is full after running "make installkernel" on FreeBSD 8.0 Message-ID: <19501.63045.631443.757563@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <4C2DF1DA.2020503@qeng-ho.org> References: <AANLkTil7rb8_YNbGPfwsNt1_Zn4hdOr9hTpGwVwTEbrF@mail.gmail.com> <20100701212112.GA28138@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <AANLkTinLgvd9GLP8RXeiWcowBoFxSeZSJLMHjCFq8jGR@mail.gmail.com> <4C2D9659.3060208@infracaninophile.co.uk> <20100702131315.00007c89@unknown> <4C2DF1DA.2020503@qeng-ho.org>
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Arthur Chance writes: > 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: It is my understanding space used on /var is, well, variable. While a generic system might only use, say, 300 mbytes 99.99 per cent of the time, the other .01 might use 5 or 10 or 20 gbytes if available. Robert Huff
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