From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 12 14:10:58 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A85E316A4CE for ; Thu, 12 Feb 2004 14:10:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from rdsnet.ro (smtp.rdsnet.ro [62.231.74.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D876743D1D for ; Thu, 12 Feb 2004 14:10:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from itetcu@apropo.ro) Received: (qmail 7936 invoked from network); 12 Feb 2004 22:10:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro) (81.196.25.19) by mail.rdsnet.ro with SMTP; 12 Feb 2004 22:10:56 -0000 Received: from it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro (localhost.buh.cameradicommercio.ro [127.0.0.1]) by it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro (Postfix) with SMTP id 9B4614C; Fri, 13 Feb 2004 00:12:36 +0200 (EET) Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 00:12:36 +0200 From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu To: gaf Message-Id: <20040213001236.6b4e0085@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro> In-Reply-To: <402BF53A.1010308@bredband.net> References: <402BE37C.7070603@bredband.net> <20040212224916.30d1c768@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro> <402BEA75.3070809@bredband.net> <20040212232451.3fdc67e0@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro> <402BF53A.1010308@bredband.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.8claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable cc: Barbish3@adelphia.net cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /tmp full (newbie) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 22:10:58 -0000 On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 22:50:50 +0100 gaf wrote: > Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: >=20 > >On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 22:04:53 +0100 > >gaf wrote: > > > > =20 > > > >>I have read the handbook but have been following (It=B4s easier to have= a=20 > >>book in front of you when installing). The Complete FreeBSD 4th=20 > >>edition when installing, where Greg Lehey recommends the partitioning = =20 > >>that I have running right now so..... > >> =20 > >> > > > >HE DOES NOT. > > > > >/ 4G > > >swap 800M > > >/home 35G > > > >NOP. No way. > > > >What he says and you forgot to do is something about sym-linking /tmp to > >/var/tmp, if memory serves. If you want to extent this to have symlinks = like this: > >/tmp --> /home/tmp > >/usr --> /home/usr > >/var --> /home/var > >you can. But there is no reason to do so. > >In fact the default setup is just the other way: > >/home --> /usr/home > >Please refer to hier(7) to see layout of FreeBSD. > >=20 > >Grog's book was for a few years the only one available and it's my perso= nal > >favorite. Nevertheless the FreeBSD handbook is the official reference. > > > >>as a newbie how should I know which one is the most accurate? Now I=20 > >>know you ll say the handbook, so from now on I will follow the handbook. > > > >Read Grog's book, it makes a few times every cent you have spent on it. > > > >>Thanks for answering > >>gaf > > =20 > > > I have the book in front of me.....sorry but there are nothing said=20 > about symlinks. Well, he must have change it in this version. Sorry. > It says: > " Creating the file systems > With these considerations in mind, we=B4ll divide up the disk in the=20 > following manner: > 4G for the root file system, which includes /usr and /var > 512M swap space > The rest of the disk for /home file system" Personally I don't agree with this kind of setup for many reasons. But think about how *you* will be using the disk space before following anyone's suggestion. And think about how large is your disk vs. the disk in the examples you get. > Next is "Selecting distributions" > I can=B4t figure out any other way to decipher this........do you??? For now just do what others suggested and symlink /tmp. eventually do the same with /usr/ports/distfiles, if you have a lot of them. Mine is like this (see my other post also): itetcu@it> /home/itetcu [0:11:34] 0 # du -hs /home/ftp/pub/FreeBSD/distfiles/ 12G /home/ftp/pub/FreeBSD/distfiles/ itetcu@it> /home/itetcu [0:11:39] 0=20 # ll /usr/ports/distfiles lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 32 Jan 9 00:46 /usr/ports/distfiles -> /home/ft= p/pub/FreeBSD/distfiles/ --=20 IOnut Unregistered ;) FreeBSD user