From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 3 14:21:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from opus.sandiegoca.ncr.com (tan7.ncr.com [192.127.94.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4244337B424 for ; Thu, 3 May 2001 14:21:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chuckr@opus.sandiegoca.ncr.com) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by opus.sandiegoca.ncr.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f43LNN765246; Thu, 3 May 2001 14:23:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chuckr@opus.sandiegoca.ncr.com) Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 14:23:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Chuck Rouillard To: Roger Merritt Cc: Mike Meyer , Subject: Re: Deleting a slice? In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.0.20010503145653.00a0a790@stjohn.stjohn.ac.th> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > At 02:15 03-05-01 -0500, you wrote: > >First, those are partitions, not slices. s1a is partition a of slice > >1, etc. > > OK. Sure wish I could get the nomenclature straight. It isn't industry consistent. Some SVR4 variants with Intel x86 as a target will refer to primary disk partitions as a "partition" and filesystems created within such a "partition" as slices. The best you can hope for is to remember which UNIX you're speaking of, and to whom. > >Tmp needs to be big enough for worst case usage. Depending on what the > >server is doing, 99M could be more than enough, or badly > >undersized. /usr/should be relatively static, and has 208M free - > >twice the size of /tmp - so I'd recommend leaving it alone. Just > >adding /tmp to / will alleviate the problems on /, as well as leaving > >*most* of the space on /tmp available for temporary use. Of course, if > >something using /tmp then eats all the space on /, the consequences > >could well be worse than having it eat all the space on /tmp. The > >other alternative would be to leave /tmp alone, and put /var on / > >instead. /var is less likely to be filled up by something > >inconsequential than /tmp. [snip] [conjoined] > [root@poppy:~]# df > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/wd0s1a 49583 40931 4686 90% / ^^^^^ You might have a look here for unnecessary files; used block count looks a little larger than I would expect. .cr To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message