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Date:      Tue, 20 Nov 2001 12:41:27 -0500
From:      Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
To:        Tom Kersten <tomkersten98@yahoo.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: / is full!!!! Please help...
Message-ID:  <p0510101eb820454e8788@[128.113.24.47]>
In-Reply-To: <20011120054007.2040.qmail@web10006.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <20011120054007.2040.qmail@web10006.mail.yahoo.com>

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At 9:40 PM -0800 11/19/01, Tom Kersten wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>My root directory is getting close to being full (97+%).
>It is 45 mb....is this too small??? I symlinked the /var
>directory to /usr/var after installation and thought that
>45 mb would be enough...it says that 30 is sufficient in
>"The Complete FreeBSD"..so I put in a little more just in
>case.

The Complete FreeBSD's recommendation is a little dated,
as things continue to grow in size.  One tactic you can
use is to see how much of that disk usage is in /tmp, and
maybe add another partition for /tmp instead of leaving
it in '/'.

-- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu

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