From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 5 16: 7:30 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 9AF8B4682 for ; Sat, 5 Feb 2000 16:07:24 -0800 (PST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id KAA16357; Sun, 6 Feb 2000 10:36:59 +1030 (CST) Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2000 10:36:58 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: "James A. Mutter" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Disk is full message, how could this happen? Message-ID: <20000206103658.C16173@freebie.lemis.com> References: <00020423330503.02757@chip.homenet> <20000206101109.B16173@freebie.lemis.com> <389CB9FB.B128D712@ds.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <389CB9FB.B128D712@ds.net> 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 Saturday, 5 February 2000 at 19:02:03 -0500, James A. Mutter wrote: >> >> As others have pointed out, you probably have /var on your root file >> system. You obviously didn't follow the book to the letter. I >> recommend a 32 MB root file system, which probably needs upgrading to >> 40 MB, but never to 100 MB. I do, however, recommend not to have a >> separate /var file system, and on page 87 I explain what you need to >> do. It's probably best to reboot after doing these steps. I'm >> appending a plain text version. >> > > I saw your explanation for moving /var to /usr/var, but what I didn't > see was your reasoning for doing this. I've always created a separate > /var partition - size depends on the application. Am I missing some > subtle reason for _not_ doing this? Yes. You just stated it: "size depends on the application". It's very difficult to calculate the size in advance. We had a long discussion on this matter just a day or two ago, and we found that some people get by with 4 MB /var (not worth making a separate file system), while others (myself for example) have 1.5 GB. No matter what size you choose, you're liable to be wrong. 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