From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Dec 28 15:45:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from herbelot.dyndns.org (d211.dhcp212-26.cybercable.fr [212.198.26.211]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F052237B419 for ; Fri, 28 Dec 2001 15:45:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from herbelot.com (multi.herbelot.nom [192.168.1.2]) by herbelot.dyndns.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA41827; Sat, 29 Dec 2001 00:45:10 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from thierry@herbelot.com) Message-ID: <3C2D0406.6AC700A8@herbelot.com> Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 00:45:10 +0100 From: Thierry Herbelot X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Reid Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Size of / partition? References: <009501c18ff7$ef17c110$7500a8c0@goliath> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is almost an FAQ ! the answers are : 1/ use whatever (A)uto partitioning does when sysinstall-ing your OS 2/ allocate at least 100MB (or even 200MB) to your / (and /var ?) partitions TfH David Reid wrote: > > Just cvsup'd to stable and I've almost run out of room on /! How big should > I create it when I reinstall as I now don't have enough to do another build. > > bash-2.04$ df -k > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/ad0s2a 49583 44564 1053 98% / > /dev/ad0s2f 2646093 1830324 604082 75% /usr > /dev/ad0s2e 19815 8212 10018 45% /var > procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc > > david > -- Thierry Herbelot To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message