From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 3 8:50:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx2.x-treme.gr (mx2.x-treme.gr [212.120.192.15]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61BC0418D for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2000 08:50:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (pat6.x-treme.gr [212.120.197.198]) by mx2.x-treme.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3/IPNG-ADV-ANTISPAM-0.1) with ESMTP id SAA12572; Thu, 3 Feb 2000 18:50:27 +0200 Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA11393; Thu, 3 Feb 2000 17:50:58 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 17:50:57 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Technical Information Cc: FreeBSD Questions List Subject: Re: Why to use seperate partitions Message-ID: <20000203175057.B92577@hades.hell.gr> Reply-To: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr References: <20000202095655.B26831@fw.wintelcom.net> <008701bf6dac$97b83ea0$020a0a0a@megared.net.mx> <4.2.2.20000202142914.06520bd0@mail.threespace.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20000202142914.06520bd0@mail.threespace.com>; from tech_info@threespace.com on Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 02:36:09PM -0500 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 62 45 D1 C9 26 F9 95 06 D6 21 2A C8 8C 16 C0 8E X-Phone-Number: +30-94-6203692, +30-93-2886457 X-Address: Theodorou Kirinaiou 61, 26334 Patra, Greece Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 02:36:09PM -0500, Technical Information wrote: > > Heck, I wouldn't even know how much room to allocate to the theoretically > immutable root directory.... Since it might help you to see the actual sizes of the directories in a system where work has been going on for a while (actually, a couple of months since last reinstall)... hades% su - hades# du -sk /var 3264 /var hades# cd / hades# du -sk bin boot dev dist etc mnt modules root sbin stand 3306 bin 523 boot 53 dev 1 dist 669 etc 1 mnt 2846 modules 3290 root 9823 sbin 1708 stand hades# ls -s1 kernel* 1672 kernel* 2544 kernel.GENERIC* 1600 kernel.old* hades% bc bc 1.05 Copyright 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1997, 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. For details type `warranty'. 3306+523+53+1+669+1+2846+3290+9823+1708+1672+2544+1600 28036 This means that what I'm actually *using* of the 100 Mb / partition I have is around 28-29 Mb so far, give or take a Mb or two. My /var partition is at 40 Mb now, but I think it's pretty empty with only 4 Mb on it. Oh, of course I rotate my logs on a weekly base, but even if I raise the period to a month or so, I think it's going to be fine. Ciao. -- Giorgos Keramidas, < keramida @ ceid . upatras . gr > For my public PGP key: finger keramida@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr PGP fingerprint, phone and address in the headers of this message. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message