Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 12:48:53 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> Cc: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>, ChrisMic@clientlogic.com, gjb@comkey.com.au, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Disk partition sizes (was: Debug kernel by default (was: System size with -g)) Message-ID: <19990408124853.H2142@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19990407032548.E4453@marder-1.localhost>; from Mark Ovens on Wed, Apr 07, 1999 at 03:25:49AM %2B0100 References: <19990407082416.H2142@lemis.com> <199904062311.QAA96785@bubba.whistle.com> <19990407084453.L2142@lemis.com> <19990407014706.X1360@marder-1.localhost> <19990407104608.T2142@lemis.com> <19990407024705.A4453@marder-1.localhost> <19990407113649.X2142@lemis.com> <19990407032548.E4453@marder-1.localhost>
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On Wednesday, 7 April 1999 at 3:25:49 +0100, Mark Ovens wrote: > On Wed, Apr 07, 1999 at 11:36:49AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: >> If I were using this space, I'd keep /usr on the rest of the first >> disk and make the second disk /home. Put /var as a symlink to >> wherever you anticipate having more space. >> >> Don't expect /var to remain small. I don't think of my /var hierarchy >> as being large, but: >> >> $ BLOCKSIZE=K du -Ls /var >> 1094308 /var >> > > 1GB :-O. Yup, it surprised me too. > I take it most of this is actually on /usr or /home? Well, mainly /home. /var/crash is on /S: $ ls -l /var lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 9 Jul 27 1997 /var -> /home/var $ ls -l /var/ total 1 drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Sep 11 1997 CVS drwxr-xr-t 7 bin bin 512 May 25 1998 TMP drwxr-xr-x 9 root wheel 512 Nov 25 19:18 X11 drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Apr 8 02:45 account drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 512 Oct 5 1998 at drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 9216 Apr 8 03:53 backup drwxr-x--- 2 root wheel 512 Feb 17 02:55 backups lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 8 Nov 4 09:04 crash -> /S/crash drwxr-x--- 3 root wheel 512 Apr 3 03:30 cron drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 1024 Apr 5 10:53 db drwxr-xr-x 4 root nanyang 512 Jun 2 1998 dist drwxrwxr-x 5 root games 512 Mar 31 16:11 games drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 2048 Apr 8 02:45 log drwxrwxr-x 2 root mail 1024 Apr 8 12:45 mail drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 512 Jan 27 1997 man drwxr-xr-x 2 daemon wheel 512 Jan 10 1996 msgs drwxr-xr-x 2 news mail 1024 Nov 17 19:26 news drwxr-xr-x 2 root mail 1024 Nov 4 09:18 omail drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Nov 16 1995 preserve drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Apr 8 11:57 run drwxrwxr-x 2 root daemon 512 Apr 5 13:47 rwho drwxr-xr-x 17 root wheel 512 Aug 12 1998 spool drwxrwxrwt 9 root wheel 1024 Apr 8 01:54 tmp drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Mar 31 16:21 yp Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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