Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 12:36:07 -0500 (EST) From: Francisco Reyes <lists@natserv.com> To: Julio Merino <juli@merino.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Size of / partition? Message-ID: <20011229112047.V32484-100000@zoraida.natserv.net> In-Reply-To: <20011229103404.GA322@klamath.local>
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On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, Julio Merino wrote: > On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 11:32:36PM -0000, 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. > > I allocate 70Mb for / on a 20gb disk and never ran out of space. You may > have old /modules and/or kernels laying around, as well as files in > /root. Also check your /tmp (which I mount on its own partition, > or with mfs!). On a new machine with a big drive I would recommend people used at least 100MB. In particular I have found that some programs when they crash and create a core file it may end up filling up "/". On my newer machines at work with lots of space I made / 1GB, /var 1GB and the rest to /usr. These are machines where I have much more free space than they will probably ever need anyway so space wasn't much of an issue. On a machine which is tighter with space I would suggest still to try and get 100MB root. Another possible approach may be to leave /var on / and give / 150MB. Space ALWAYS comes down to what are you going to do with the machine. On most instances / is rarelly used. /var can sometimes be a problem if you have a runaway log which you forgot to add to newsyslog and this is why many people like to have /var separate from /. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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