Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 11:26:02 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Disk Usage Message-ID: <4439ymb379.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <20100422120223.2d1d50f4@scorpio.seibercom.net> (Jerry's message of "Thu, 22 Apr 2010 12:02:23 -0400") References: <20100422120223.2d1d50f4@scorpio.seibercom.net>
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Jerry <freebsd.user@seibercom.net> writes: > I just did a fresh install of FreeBSD-8.0/amd64. Previously, I had > FreeBSD-7.3/i386 installed. It appears the the size of "/" has > increased dramatically. > > $ df -H > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/ad0s1a 1.0G 527M 428M 55% / > devfs 1.0k 1.0k 0B 100% /dev > /dev/ad0s1d 520M 18k 478M 0% /tmp > /dev/ad0s1e 236G 6.0G 212G 3% /usr > /dev/ad1s1d 238G 720M 218G 0% /var > > When I attempted to build World and a new kernel after first installing > 8.0, I received an error that "/" was at 106% and the process stopped. I > reinstalled 8.0 and increased the size to 1.0G and now everything > appears to be working correctly. > > In my old installation, the root directory only used a minuscule amount > of space. Why has it increased so dramatically in 8.0/amd64? New modules, mostly. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/
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