From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Dec 29 9:35:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from koza.acecape.com (koza2.acecape.com [66.9.36.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA51737B41F for ; Sat, 29 Dec 2001 09:35:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from p65-147.acedsl.com (p65-147.acedsl.com [66.114.65.147]) by koza.acecape.com (8.10.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id fBTHYOF17422; Sat, 29 Dec 2001 12:34:25 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 12:36:07 -0500 (EST) From: Francisco Reyes X-X-Sender: fran@zoraida.natserv.net To: Julio Merino Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Size of / partition? In-Reply-To: <20011229103404.GA322@klamath.local> Message-ID: <20011229112047.V32484-100000@zoraida.natserv.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 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