From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 21 11:21:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA07829 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 11:21:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pau-amma.whistle.com (s205m64.whistle.com [207.76.205.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA07823 for ; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 11:21:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dhw@whistle.com) Received: (from dhw@localhost) by pau-amma.whistle.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id LAA14243 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 11:19:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dhw) Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 11:19:29 -0800 (PST) From: David Wolfskill Message-Id: <199812211919.LAA14243@pau-amma.whistle.com> Subject: Re: POP3 Error Message [Veering Slightly off topic] Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >From: Ramji Venkateswaran >Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 02:29:08 +0000 >> Your / partition is dreadfully small as /tmp is hanging off it as >> well. You may want to mount a separate /tmp. >I've noticed that the auto-fs making utility in the novice configuration does >this, it automatically creates a really small root and the rest of a medium >size (proportional to your HDD of course) :)) >Anyone any ideas why? I generally end up creating partitions by hand just for >kicks anyway, but I'm curious. Well, I don't know the answer to that -- it may well be lost in the mists. But when I first saw the auto-suggested / allocation, I thought it rather large; after all, I don't write (much) to my root FS. (I mount /tmp on swap, as an MFS -- similar to what I'm used to, which is SunOS and Solaris 2.x.) Of course, when I tried upgrading a 2.2.6 "sandbox" system that I had thus allocated to 3.0, the process go part way through, then died a horrible death after filling up /. :-( Maybe someone can learn from my mistakes, david -- David Wolfskill UNIX System Administrator dhw@whistle.com voice: (650) 577-7158 pager: (650) 371-4621 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message