From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Tue Sep 8 20:35:25 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D840A007EF for ; Tue, 8 Sep 2015 20:35:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wam@hiwaay.net) Received: from fly.hiwaay.net (fly.hiwaay.net [216.180.54.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3546D1A1C for ; Tue, 8 Sep 2015 20:35:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wam@hiwaay.net) Received: from kabini1.local (dynamic-216-186-222-143.knology.net [216.186.222.143] (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0) by fly.hiwaay.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/fly) with ESMTP id t88KZMbV022441 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 8 Sep 2015 15:35:23 -0500 Subject: Re: Storage question References: <55EF3D23.5060009@hiwaay.net> <44lhcgbr4f.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Cc: FreeBSD Questions !!!! From: "William A. Mahaffey III" Message-ID: <55EF468A.4090902@hiwaay.net> Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2015 15:40:52 -0453.75 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <44lhcgbr4f.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2015 20:35:25 -0000 On 09/08/15 15:26, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > "William A. Mahaffey III" writes: > >> I'm pretty sure the last few can't be deleted, but what about the >> stuff in '/var/backups' & '/rescue' ? I am trying to figure out a >> reasonable minimum I can size the root directory & still have safe, >> reliable operations. Any clues appreciated. TIA & have a good one. > You're worrying about a few tens of megabytes? You must have *really* > small disks on these systems. [/rescue takes less than 10MB, and can > save you a lot of time in a rescue situation.] > Not really, & you may be right, much ado about nothing, but I like things as efficient as possible. I may be reading wrong, but I think I see ~5.3 MiB *per file*, or a few hundred MiB total in /rescue. There are also those pkg.sql backups, @ about 10 MiB apiece. The reason I ask is I have about 12 GiB used total in my root dir & I'm trying to figure out where it is all going. It may be nothing, I wanted to see if I could get down to an 8 GiB root partition, but that may be unrealistic. -- William A. Mahaffey III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.