From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 7 07:08:02 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89C9F106566B for ; Wed, 7 Oct 2009 07:08:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Olivier.Nicole@cs.ait.ac.th) Received: from mail.cs.ait.ac.th (mail.cs.ait.ac.th [192.41.170.16]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87A238FC18 for ; Wed, 7 Oct 2009 07:08:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.cs.ait.ac.th (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C8D13A386C; Wed, 7 Oct 2009 14:07:59 +0700 (ICT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=cs.ait.ac.th; h= references:subject:subject:in-reply-to:from:from:message-id:date :date:received:received:received; s=selector1; t=1254899278; x= 1256713678; bh=PPr8hOMPbHVF2o+BLIn2a2dC/O/3I4i6U1XcHIOkBQM=; b=i HT49tRIb8wTTiWJPPKdXQAMpnbRWrJTw1IDoQcqn8swKeaPzIC+ILXxZDm4gsxou vPBdXibzpwU6Oe+5qQ6Mg8VoXwPAHBgThn/p0mN7otO3ngFe0mJawQZWTU+kxhcj ntXYmRN8+SEsghHdIaYh1qvVkpVQ/dw9WKDNVxmkAQ= X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at cs.ait.ac.th Received: from mail.cs.ait.ac.th ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.cs.ait.ac.th [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id 6DIeXbxHKKwZ; Wed, 7 Oct 2009 14:07:58 +0700 (ICT) Received: from banyan.cs.ait.ac.th (banyan.cs.ait.ac.th [192.41.170.5]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.cs.ait.ac.th (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 335FC3A386B; Wed, 7 Oct 2009 14:07:58 +0700 (ICT) Received: (from on@localhost) by banyan.cs.ait.ac.th (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n9777t7X070411; Wed, 7 Oct 2009 14:07:55 +0700 (ICT) (envelope-from on) Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 14:07:55 +0700 (ICT) Message-Id: <200910070707.n9777t7X070411@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> From: Olivier Nicole To: chrisstankevitz@yahoo.com In-reply-to: <874310.63278.qm@web52906.mail.re2.yahoo.com> (message from Chris Stankevitz on Tue, 6 Oct 2009 23:28:00 -0700 (PDT)) References: <874310.63278.qm@web52906.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: / almost out of space just after installation X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2009 07:08:02 -0000 Hi, > Q1: Is 26M free space on / after installing FreeBSD normal? That is not the right question to ask :) The question would be "is it normal that / is using 430M?". It depemds what you have in / file system. After instal, I have 271M used, but for example, my user home directory is on a separate file system. > Q2: Will I be able to install GNOME, Firefox, Yes, the installed software goes to /usr > download 30 MB of > files, and place them on my GNOME dekstop? (I believe the desktop > is located at /home/cstankevitz/.desktop aka on the root partition > where there is only 26M of free space) No because you have your home directory in the root file system and there is only 36 MB left, so you cannot use 30MB. > Q3: Which changes, if any, should I make to my system? Reinstall with sensible partitioning; for a desktop machine I'd use: / 2GB /usr 20~30GB /var 2GB /tmp 1GB /home the rest On the servers I have, have a maximum of 10GB used on the busiest machine, including a full buildworld/buildkernel. Best regards, Olivier