From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 3 16:28:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E5A84E15 for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2000 14:27:23 -0800 (PST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id IAA26650; Fri, 4 Feb 2000 08:57:19 +1030 (CST) Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 08:57:19 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr Cc: Technical Information , FreeBSD Questions List Subject: Re: Why to use seperate partitions Message-ID: <20000204085719.G26290@freebie.lemis.com> References: <20000202095655.B26831@fw.wintelcom.net> <008701bf6dac$97b83ea0$020a0a0a@megared.net.mx> <4.2.2.20000202142914.06520bd0@mail.threespace.com> <20000203175057.B92577@hades.hell.gr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <20000203175057.B92577@hades.hell.gr> WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, 3 February 2000 at 17:50:57 +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > 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 > > 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 You could do this a lot more easily with 'du -sxk /'. > 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. This is a good idea of what I said earlier: it's easy to calculate the root file system and very difficult to calculate the size of ftp. Your root file system is, within a MB or so, the same size as mine. Your /var file system is about 0.25% of the size of mine. How can anybody else guess how big his is going to be? Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message