Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 08:49:30 -0700 (PDT) From: David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com> To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Disk space poll Message-ID: <199807231549.IAA05817@pau-amma.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <19980723104426.05352@welearn.com.au>
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>Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 09:40:21 +1000 >From: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> >How large is your FreeBSD partition now? >And how large did you make the partition when you first tried >to install FreeBSD? I had some difficulty figuring out how (well, to be honest, or whether) to respond to the above. Some of the inhabitants of -newbies may well recall (sorry if this bores y'all), but some might not: I work as a UNIX systems administrator, and most of the machines of which I have oversight run FreeBSD. I have no reason to consider using anything less than the entire machine's resources for FreeBSD; one of them looks roughly like: shrimp[69]% df -k -t ufs -t mfs Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/sd0s1a 27679 16174 9291 64% / mfs:23 127151 81 116898 0% /tmp /dev/sd0s1f 356911 303369 24990 92% /usr /dev/sd0s1e 31775 15034 14199 51% /var /dev/sd1s1e 1068539 737881 245175 75% /shrimp/usr/local /dev/sd3s1 2053102 1706190 182664 90% /shrimp/tribe /dev/sd4s1 2063886 378674 1520102 20% /shrimp/home /dev/sd2g 4046491 1968366 1754406 53% /shrimp/ftp /dev/sd2d 4578029 1 4211786 0% /shrimp/tmp shrimp[70]% swapinfo Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Type /dev/sd0s1b 131072 47652 83356 36% Interleaved (That "/shrimp/tmp" is a 4.5GB "amanda holding disk" -- basically, a big speed-matching buffer for backups.) The desktop I happen to be using looks like: pau-amma[5]% df -k -t ufs -t mfs && swapinfo Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/sd0s1a 23583 15191 6506 70% / mfs:20 254319 55 233919 0% /tmp /dev/sd0s1g 1201967 292402 813408 26% /pau-amma/home /dev/sd0s1f 508655 322331 145632 69% /usr /dev/sd0s1e 11295 1734 8658 17% /var Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Type /dev/sd0s1b 262144 101236 160844 39% Interleaved And for those wondering why I'm subscribed to -newbies... well, I've only been dealing with FreeBSD since the end of February (though I've used & administered UNIX systems since '86)... and this is the first time in my life I've ever needed to seriously be aware of the idiosyncracies of PC hardware (which evidently are legion). I'm hoping to learn a bit about said hardware and ways to avoid its less pleasant aspects.... Cheers, david -- David Wolfskill UNIX System Administrator dhw@whistle.com voice: (650) 577-7158 pager: (650) 371-4621 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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