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Date:      Sat, 29 Dec 2001 00:06:55 -0000
From:      "David Reid" <dreid@jetnet.co.uk>
To:        <stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Size of / partition?
Message-ID:  <00b201c18ffc$ba2f7f10$7500a8c0@goliath>
References:  <049001c18ffb$b4ce5970$0e01a8c0@mark>

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Thanks for all the replies!

When I reinstall I'll be sure to follow advice from most of you and set it
to above 100M.

Thanks for the other suggestions about cleaning etc.

david


> David, 
> 
> Old kernel and modules may be filling your /. You can safely delete
> /kernel.old and /modules.old. You can also safely clean out /tmp which
> technically should be cleaned during reboots. Also if you store anything
> in root's home directory, /root, it would be taking space in /. The
> defaults for auto disk labeling pick 100MB for / and 20MB for /var even
> on modern 10 and 20GB hard drives. You may be better off straying from
> the defaults and being generous if you have a large disk. For example I
> generally choose 1GB /, 1GB swap, 3GB /var, and the rest to /usr. This
> ought to be plenty for tracking -STABLE, running a mail server, running
> a MySQL server, and just about any other application IMHO.
> 
> Mark
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of David Reid
> Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 4:33 PM
> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Size of / partition?
> 
> 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
> 
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