From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 6 17:36:41 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F05D16A41F for ; Sat, 6 Aug 2005 17:36:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd3mo2so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6DCB43D60 for ; Sat, 6 Aug 2005 17:36:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd2mr7so.prod.shaw.ca (pd2mr7so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.10]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IKT002DWA2VM110@l-daemon> for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Sat, 06 Aug 2005 11:32:55 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml8so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.152]) by pd2mr7so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IKT00FIJA2VU550@pd2mr7so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Sat, 06 Aug 2005 11:32:55 -0600 (MDT) Received: from [192.168.0.60] (S0106006067227a4a.vc.shawcable.net [24.87.209.6]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.18 (built Jul 28 2003)) with ESMTP id <0IKT00C6LA2V5E@l-daemon> for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Sat, 06 Aug 2005 11:32:55 -0600 (MDT) Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2005 10:32:54 -0700 From: Colin Percival In-reply-to: <20050806143812.GA76296@over-yonder.net> To: "Matthew D. Fuller" Message-id: <42F4F446.90304@freebsd.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en-us, en References: <42F47C0D.2020704@freebsd.org> <20050806112118.GA7708@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> <20050806143812.GA76296@over-yonder.net> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050724) Cc: Peter Jeremy , "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: /usr/portsnap vs. /var/db/portsnap X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2005 17:36:41 -0000 Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > I doubt it presents much problem as regards the 'running out' issue > anyway. Things like fsck time, maybe. But I've got a rather oldish > and rather smallish /var, and: > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused Mounted on > /dev/da1s1f 992M 266M 647M 29% 3802 250148 1% /var Your "rather oldish and rather smallish" /var is four times the default size used in sysinstall (256MB is used for /, /tmp, and /var if you have a large enough drive). This default results in having ~32000 inodes. I wonder if it's time to increase the default size of /var again. Colin Percival