From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 20 9:41:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.22.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D474537B41B for ; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 09:41:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id fAKHfT766318; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 12:41:29 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20011120054007.2040.qmail@web10006.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20011120054007.2040.qmail@web10006.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 12:41:27 -0500 To: Tom Kersten , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: / is full!!!! Please help... Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" 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 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message